Bringing youth movements to conferences isn't right for the reasons you might believe. CPAC speeches by the Young America's Foundation and the Young Americans for Freedom often give off a cocky and polarized vibe. Their members are awesome speakers, yet their confrontational rhetoric drowns the message in a tub of soundbites.
Young age is the right time to be a radical. In later years your peers would give you funny looks. Yet the overproof radicalism and bitter hormonal storms make a very bad cocktail one shouldn't serve to customers. Therefore the youth movements at conferences such as CPAC shouldn't just showcase their membership and vocal chords but listen and learn from the seasoned politicos.
Because real politics isn't a college pastime and needs professional attitudes. The two YAFs strive to provide those but nothing can substitute for some good old experience wisdom. And the older politicians should set a prime example.
After all, if you behave and speak childishly at 50, what do you expect the younger guys to take from it? Just a thought.
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