Youth should get into politics, for the simple reason that if the youth stays away from politics saying "politics is for scoundrels" and thus all the good people really do stay away, then who else, but the scoundrels are left to get into politics. And this is what has happened.

By saying "politics is for scoundrels" we are actually nipping in the bud, even the thought of getting into politics. Once the thought is dead there's no chance of it being converted to action. And without any action (or with inaction) things will only go on the way they are: In a direction governed only by those already in a position to do so (i.e., the ones already in politics).

Secondly to the assertion that "Seniors are our pride" - I'd like to state sadly that (most) seniors have let us all down. My seniors (either politicians or common people) let me down...and I and my peers probably will let our kid's generation down by exactly the same mechanism: Saying "politics is for scoundrels".