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/^t/Youth is usually quite a stormy period of life, full of tensions. Teenagers tend to rebel against everything that embodies authority and may become an easy target for radical politicians. They lack experience and wisdom and very often their knowledge about the history of their own country is embarrassingly low. As the latest presidential election showed many of those young people voted for a particular candidate just because they took his nice tan, matching ties and dancing to folk music for his political credentials and it did not matter what political option he represented. Others voted for his opponent because their parents made them do so. They did not put their votes in a ballot box because they were for this or that candidate but because they were influenced by their parents.