The Philosopher-King Politician: Virtually Non-Existent
Plato had a good idea when he said the wisest people should rule the land through his concept of the philosopher king in his book The Republic but the question is who are really the wise people? Is it the humble, intellectual monk or the wealthy capitalist? Who's to say the humble monk will not be seduced by power to become a tyrant?
The philosopher-king could be elected or could be a benevolent dictator. There are a few dictators around that are good to the people like the guy running Qatar.
The philosopher-king ALWAYS does the right thing to help the people.
He knows it's not about him or the elitist insiders who want to control the wealth and power. It's always about helping the people.
He will not spend money on the military just to fatten the military weapons manufacturers' wallets. If there is no threat such as in Canada where it has not been attacked since the War of 1812, the philospher-king would use that money on projects to help the people not to buy military ships, planes, etc.
He is not greedy and does not live in excess. He lives a modest life.
He has no cohorts, an elitist insider group, made up of greedy bitches and bastards all trying to control the people and get what they can for themselves which is common in virtually every government.
The philosopher-king commits to:
ethical, righteous behavior
equal justice for all, no special favors for elitists when it comes to breaking laws and moral codes
does what he says, keeps promises
strives to create a prosperous society
doesn't care what all his enemies say about him because he knows he's doing the right thing
doesn't care about compliments, has an inner vision of what is good and right, can't be swayed or seduced
listens to ideas and advice from anyone and everyone but always deliberates before making an independent decision
is patient, knows things take time to develop
treats the common people with respect
knows he's the inspirational and material leader of the country so he accepts the role and the responsibility to do it right
seeks the simplest, best solutions that will benefit the most people
strives to eradicate the most serious problems like homelessness, unemployment, care for disabled people and daycare for working parents
is not bullied by members of big business and media
makes moral judgments using the divine intuition his Creator gave him combined with the wisdom he got from life experience
takes risks to improve the country like building an expensive new road that will eventually pay off but not right away or invests in something like genetic engineering that will be the future someday but right now it's all risk
has a calm demeanour
lives in the moment, deals with current situations quickly
The philosopher king concept has been played out over and over again throughout history. It's just that the definition of the philosopher king has been bastardized to be the people who control the money in any society.
Since they control the money, they think they're intellectually superior to everyone else therefore as the elite few, they have a divine right to rule the lower classes.
The secret societies that have run the world for the past 2000 years were started based on Plato's idea of the philosopher king. It's just that their definition of the philosopher king is not some wise, benevolent, kindly, old man.
It's some arrogant, brash, capitalist who thinks because he controls the money, he's better and smarter than everyone else therefore entitled to rule.
At some point in time, voters get tired of virtually all incumbents because there are no great philosopher-kings doing things to really help the people like the guy in Qatar does. He's not elected but if he was, the people would give him landslide victories. He gives them free electricity, free college tuition, etc.
In contrast, politicians in the West are trying to get money to get re-elected and to put away for themselves.
We need philosopher-kings to run our countries. One way to do this is to lower the pay so much that only idealistic people will run for office.
We need compassionate, wise people with common sense not politicians who are bought and paid for by corporate interests.
Win an Election 1
The essence of American presidential leadership, and the secret of presidential success, is storytelling.
Evan Cornog, The Power and the Story: How the Crafted Presidential Narrative Has Determined Political Success from George Washington to George W. Bush
Follow their rules. Get your candidate application in on time.
Present yourself as somebody who wants to solve problems and help people.
Highlight your achievements but don't brag.
Engage in two-way dialogue. Get one website only. Don't get a website then do facebook too. Do it all on one website.
You could get twitter for your fans but it's arrogant to think other people give a damn about your daily tweets.
Invite people to send email questions. Answer them quickly.
Spend time online but you need to get in the mainstream media. Offer to do a show or a debate on your local Cable TV community channel.
Get on the news by any means necessary.
Walk the streets, knocking on doors to meet the people.
Organize local events, fund-raising events, rallies, etc.
Do not make hasty or offensive comments.
Be careful before you say hateful things about a group or your political opponents.
Do not discourage a difference of opinion. Be ready when someone opposes you. Y ou almost what questions your opponents might ask you. Have answers ready.
Deal with the issues people are mostly interested in.
If you really want to win in a less than noble way, do what the professional politicians do. They get their pollsters to see what the public opinion is on the issues then they parrot the majority ideas back.
Ensure that your site caters to all or most age groups and income groups with unique features for each that they may find interesting.
Through your website, constantly thank and motivate your volunteer campaign workers.
Always monitor the people to see what worked for you and what didn't as in giving a speech or on your website. Always change things that don't work.
Win an Election 2
At some point in time, voters get tired of virtually all incumbents because there are no great philosopher-kings doing things to really help the people like the guy in Qatar does. He's not elected but if he was, he would win. He gives them free electricity, free college tuition, etc. In contrast, us voters in the West see them all as phony scumbags, at least I do.
Certain traits will help you as a politician like:
male
tall, over six feet
Over 35, under 65
Married.
Military veteran.
Christian or Jewish
Already a public figure for something or celebrity
You have to be tough and willing to work hard. Election campaigns are long and tedious.
You have to grovel for campaign money.
You and your family will be investigated by journalists and the opposition parties to get dirt on you or anything that makes a good story.
You have to be able to talk well to people.
Have a successful career.
Have money already.
Being a politician means you must do lots of things you do not want to do.
Most likely you will have to sell your soul and do flip-flops based on what your campaign people tell you after they do their research on the issues.
You can be a maverick and make a stand for a certain set of issues but for some issues, you can't go against what the majority feels and win. Legalizing drugs or banning abortion would lose a lot of votes right about now.
It could be hard to beat a sitting politician. The best times are when the incumbent retires or is thrown out due to a scandal.
You need to raise money for your campaign to get the word out about you.
Set up your own website and a twitter account to send messages to followers. You could set up on facebook or simply stick to your own website. Develop an email mailing list to send emails to your friends.
Sometimes you have to bide your time and wait until your opposition is weak or you could be like the young guy in Newark, NJ who ran against the old guy, lost but in the process, he established himself as the new guy and won the next time.
You may need people like advisors, a communications director, strategist, marketing director, campaign finance committee chairman, campaign coordinators, paid staffers and volunteers.
Campaign expenses are:
Advertising in the media.
Sending direct mail.
Paid campaign staff.
Office space, telephones, travel, good clothes, food, internet, yard signs, bumper stickers, etc.
Raise money any way you can that's legal.
Federal law limits ordinary citizens to contributions of $2,000 each.
You could find some political action committees (PACs) that favor your candidacy. PACs can contribute $5,000 per candidate for every election and they can create and run advertisements on your behalf.
Form a campaign finance committee. Appoint a treasurer and board of directors and file forms with the Federal Election Commission at fec.gov.
If you get elected, you owe your contributors favors.
Contact your election commission or party organization for the requirements on how to be a candidate.
There might be a primary where you compete against others in your party for the nomination.
Be energetic.
Get a simple, clear message out.
Identify your supporters and offer to drive them out to vote.
Use campaign management software.
Your opponents will try to bash you any way they can.
Lie about promises because everybody does but don't lie about things that can easily be checked up on. One guy said he played college football. They checked it out with the college and there was no record of him playing there. He quit the election.
Stay in the middle.
Don't show anger or anxiety.
Negative campaigning works. I see politicians do petty things all the time. If the other guy does something that's none of your business like sleep around, if you're a noble guy or girl, you don't care. That has got nothing to do with political ideas but your campaign manager will say we have to attack this guy as an immoral piece of crap.
Some things are downright character assassination like they tried to portray one guy as a guy a with foreign interests because he spent the past 20 years working outside of his Native country where he was running for office. It worked. He lost. I watched the winner act like nothing happened, like he won on his merit but deep down he must have known he just assassinated an innocent guy who did nothing bad. He was a professor at a foreign university. They made him look like a foreign agent.
How Bills Become Laws
washlaw.edu/uslaw/statelaw.html, state and federal government and legislative information, including statutes for most states.
thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html, electronic version of a booklet designed to help the american people better understand how legislation is enacted by congress.
General List of Political Ideologies
A democracy is simple majority rule.
A republic starts with the notion that all people have certain inalienable rights and corresponding responsibilities that cannot be removed, unless they violate someone else's inalienable right, even by a majority vote.
Roughly speaking, these are the major political ideologies:
anarchism
buddhism
christianity
conservatism
democratic socialism
environmentalism
fascism
feminism
hinduism
islam
judaism
liberalism
libertarianism
marxism
nationalism
radicalism
reformist socialism
religion
religious socialism
revolutionary socialism
sikhism
social anarchism
social democracy
socialism
zionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/african_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agorism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agrarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarcha-feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarchism_without_adjectives
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarchist_communism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarcho-capitalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarcho-liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarcho-pacifism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarcho-primitivism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anarcho-syndicalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anti-revisionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arab_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arab_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/austrofascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/austromarxism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autonomism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autonomist_marxism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baathism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bernsteinism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bioconservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bolivarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brazilian_integralism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bright_green_environmentalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/buddhist_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/buddhist_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:political_ideologies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:political_parties
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chinese_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christian_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christian_communism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christian_democracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christian_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christian_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/civic_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/classical_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clerical_fascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/collectivist_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/communism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/communitarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism_in_australia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism_in_canada
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism_in_colombia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism_in_germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism_in_north_america
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism_in_the_united_states
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservative_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/corporatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/council_communism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cultural_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cultural_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cultural_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/deep_ecology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/democratic_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/distributism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dominionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eco-capitalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecofascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecofeminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecologism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/economic_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eco-socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/environmentalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eurocommunism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fabianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/falangism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fiscal_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free-market_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free-market_environmentalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/freiwirtschaft
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gaullism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/geolibertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/georgism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/greek_fascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_libertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_municipalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_politics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/green_syndicalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guevarism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guild_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hindu_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hoxhaism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/illegalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inclusive_democracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/indigenism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/individualist_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/individualist_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/infoanarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/insurrectionary_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/internationalism_(politics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/irish_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iron_guard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islamic_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islamic_democracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islamic_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islamic_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islamism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/italian_fascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/japanese_fascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jewish_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jewish_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kautskyism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/khalistan_movement
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/labor_zionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/latin_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/left_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/left_communism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/left-libertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/left-wing_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/left-wing_politics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/leninism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lesbian_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberal_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberal_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberal_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberation_theology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/liberation_theology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/libertarian_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/libertarian_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/libertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/libertarianism#neolibertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_ideologies_named_after_people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_political_parties_by_country
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_political_parties_by_ideology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_political_parties_by_united_nations_geoscheme
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/luxemburgism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/main_page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/makhnovism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maoism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/market_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/market_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/market_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marxism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marxist_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marxist_humanism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marxist_revisionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masculism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/melanesian_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/minarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/multi-party_system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mutualism_(economic_theory)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/national_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/national_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/national_syndicalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/national-anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nazism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neoconservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neo-fascism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neoliberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neo-marxism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neosocialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/non-partisan_democracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/objectivism_(ayn_rand)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ordoliberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paleoconservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paleoliberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paleolibertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pan-africanism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/panarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pan-iranism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/participatory_economics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/patriotism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peronism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/platformism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/political_catholicism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/politics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/popolarismo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/portal:politics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/post-anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/post-colonial_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/post-left_anarchy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodern_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/privatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/producerism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/progressivism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/propertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/provo_(movement)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/psychoanalytic_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/queer_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radical_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radicalism_(historical)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/really_really_free_market
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reformism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religious_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religious_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religious_zionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/republicanism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/revisionist_zionism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/revolutionary_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rexism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/right-anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/right-libertarianism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/roman_catholic_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/romantic_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/separatist_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/single-party_state
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/situationism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_capitalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_democracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_ecology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_liberalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialism_with_chinese_characteristics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialist_feminism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/syncretic_politics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/syndicalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/template_talk:party_politics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/template_talk:political_ideologies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/theoconservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/third_way
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/titoism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/traditionalist_conservatism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/trotskyism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/two-party_system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utopian_socialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/voluntaryism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/western_marxism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/white_nationalism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/womanism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/workerism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zbor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zionism
Political One-Liners
Nothing in politics ever happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is governed by people far different from those imagined by the public.
Benjamin Disraeli
I think we need people to rule who are like Plato's Philospher King, wise people who feel they must rule because they're the only pure, noble people in society not capitalist pigs who run for office for money and fame.
The job of our elected representatives is to sign legislations written by lobbyists working for those special interests who pay for their election.
We must separate politics from religion and corporate profit.
Religion is bad in politics because it tolerates no rival or competition of any kind. A Christian must be pro-life and anti-stem-cell research. There's no room for individual analysis.
Why Power Corrupts Almost Everybody
These are points I got from reading a social science analysis of power.
People in power don't actually give a damn about you: they are too busy thinking about themselves.
People put into power positions stop thinking about others or what they think. They feel superior and elitist.
Feeling powerful makes it easier to lie because almost nobody will question you and you feel entitled to lie anyway because you know what's best.
When you're treated like a bigshot, you feel untouchable and much less guilt than a regular Joe. Fatcats can lie much smoother than other people.
It's almost as if the feeling of being in power makes them think the normal rules of morality didn't apply to them.
Power and hypocrisy are linked in the brain. These brain areas are close to each other. They help each other.
Nobody gives average people a break. They only give breaks to people that are powerful or can give them something back.
Power hungry leaders look down upon the people they should be serving. Good leaders put others first.
To be in a position of power you must be willing to step over whoever you can to get there, making most people with power innately corrupt and open to abusing it.
Power makes a person think that the rules do not apply to him or her.
Powerless people are more self-critical than others.
It's not all bad. Other studies show that people with power see the world more positively and are therefore more likely to take risks based on faith.
The Stranglehold of Two Parties
Most politicians are worried about staying in power way more than doing something to help people.
Everywhere I look nowadays, I see splinter groups away from the mainstream mindset promoting their own interests which is a good thing.
I also watch the internet activists express their own views about what's happening in life away from the generic pablum on TV but it still hasn't broken the stranglehold the two major political parties have on the American government and many other governments worldwide.
In any American election, all the other political parties combined barely get more than one to five percent of the vote be it federal, state or local. This is bad for democracy and freedom, when two political parties control all the power.
It's not the people that are freely voting this way. It's the media which portrays every political party beyond the big two as a trivial, fringe party not worthy of consideration. They don't give them a chance. They don't even allow their leaders on the presidential debates on TV.
At the very least, there should be four or more major political parties in the United States that each have the potential to get enough votes to conceivably win any election. This would be closer to a true democracy but the system is so entrenched that it's rigged against anyone beyond the big two.
As of now, it's an oligarchy, rule by the wealthy few who fit the generic, staid image both the Republicans and the Democrats want, someone who looks good but doesn't say much of anything with originality and vision to it.
This is one of the things I'm strongly against, this brainwash that the Republicans and the Democrats are the only two political parties who have the power therefore the only ones that count.
It's like a choice between two duds, Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum. What good does that do when none of them are very good because there's no accountability since they know they will always be taking turns? That's the way the system currently works.
The truth is that in the backrooms in Washington, they're friends. They know they're the powerful few so despite all the games they play for public consumption, ultimately, it's all about them protecting their own interests along with their big business lobbying buddies, not about helping common people live better lives.
They're not out to help the common people. They're out to sell their power to the lobbying special interest groups.
Political Science Websites
swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/jdr, political theory on the internet
swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/jdr/classic.html, classical political theorists
swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/jdr/moder1.html, modern political theorists from machiavelli to locke
swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/jdr/modern.html, modern political theorists from burke to marx
swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/jdr/contemp.html, contemporary political theory
lib.uconn.edu/polisci/polisci.htm, political science
w3.org/pub/datasources/bysubject/politics/overview.html
indiana.edu/~libsalc/goehlert/polisci.html, political science resources
blair.library.rhodes.edu/pshtml
s/psnet.html, political science internet resources
keele.ac.uk/depts/po/theory.htm, political theory
keele.ac.uk/depts/po/thought.htm, political thought
n2h2.com/kovacs/s0052s.html, philosophical, political
science and ethics
riceinfo.rice.edu/11/subject/government, government, political science and law
Speech Writer/ Speechwriter
Speechwriters work mostly for politicians but also work for other bigshots like business types and pop culture celebrities.
For a politician and everyone else for that matter, the speechwriter has to talk to the group who either invited the politician or where he or she is campaigning in advance, get a feel for them then whip off the speech at least two days before the event to give the politician time to practice it.
If you want to be a speechwriter, volunteer for a campaign and start writing speeches for your candidate. Most volunteers want to be at events but don't want to write speeches.
jobprofiles.org/govfspeechwriter.htm
ifreelance.com/freelance-jobs/speech-writing-freelance-jobs/
careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/speech/writer
hubpages.com/hub/find-freelance-writing-jobs-as-a-freelance-speech-writer
writingcareer.com/articles/what-is-freelance-speech-writing.php
payscale.com/research/us/job=speech_writer/salary
speech-writers.com
salary.com/careers
thespeechwriter.typepad.com
employment911.com, senior speech writer jobs search
nwu.org, national writers union job hotline.
moneyfromhome.com/job_data/speech_writers_98981.htm
yourspeechwriter.com, professional speech
writing service
washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/ofc/, washington, dc, office jobs.
online-writing-jobs.com/jobs/freelance-speech-writing-jobs.php
hotjobs.yahoo.com
coe.west.asu.edu/students/jkoenig/webquest/elections/job.htm, speech writer job description.
simplyhired.com, speechwriter-jobs/
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The five books of The "People Power" Law-Government-Media-Politics Superbook are:
Book 1. Law Guide; Law Job Guide (Legal Knowledge, Most Types of Law, World Law; Law Career, Lawyer, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, Scopist, Legal Research, Court Reporting, Judge, Law Librarian)
Book 2. Government Guide, Government Job Guide (Federal, State, County, Municipal, World Government Websites, Government Selling Stuff, Government Grants, Government Jobs, Canadian Government Info-Jobs)
Book 3. Journalism Career Guide-Media Guide
(Journalist Jobs-Schools, Worldwide List of TV, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, Etc.)
Book 4. Politics Guide
Book 5. Activist Guide (Why Care About Anything Beyond Yourself? What Really Matters Anyway)
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