Seems like the type of thing you'd find in a dystopian YA novel. Remembering back to being a kid, a lot of them have that kind of setup for disenfranchising the

Seems like the type of thing you'd find in a dystopian YA novel. Remembering back to being a kid, a lot of them have that kind of setup for disenfranchising the ideology the hero/heroine ends up aligning themselves to, and establishing the group of villainous adults. Actually, I think this exact plot point happens in the Dreamfall series.