Challange/WI: Scouting Becomes a Political Movement

Well, thats it, but the idea is, maybe, scouting for some reason or another becomes a political movement in the early 20th century, then, becuase of the depression and economic climate, reactionaries turn to the movement and it's values, it takes power, and you have a governemnt structure based on scout organizations.

the reason i said challange, is becuase is would like someone to create a realisitc POD/ explanation for this. Disscus. ;)
 
Difficult with scouting, although you could certainly have a creepy Edwardian "Carson Youth" pop up with a politicisation of the movement over Ireland in the 1900s. God knows enough public schools were teaching drilling and gunnery at the time...

What might be more fun is the Kibbo Kift. God knows how you get that lot in power though- I vaguely managed it in the British chunk of Decades of Darkness but that was with a PoD in 1811!
 
Perhaps i should have had a differant title, what about political movements that resemble the scouts? I have acctualy had this idea for ages of a alternative to facism in the 30's, which is based around a mass reactionary traditionalist conservative movement (I am a conervative myself, and not some leftie trying to bash the scouts or conservatism), which basicly has the same values as the scouts, with a protectionist economic policy and a system of government with a similar structure to scouting organizations. Opinions anyone?
 
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