@shellyjabraham 3 ай бұрын
This is the video I wish I had a year ago. Everything Jay says is backed by my own experience.
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
Thank you Shelly. Jay
@Monica-gj2yx 3 ай бұрын
Volunteer for a candidate you really believe in. I am not called to run for office, but I learned so much, and it made me a better citizen, to boot!
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Jay
@MrZigan4ik 3 ай бұрын
Not just a great tutorial but also great life advices! Thanks for what you do!
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Jay
@daviscragun2023 3 ай бұрын
Loving this channel and find the content both enlightening and inspiring. Thank you, Dr. Townsend!
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Jay
@luismelloleite 3 ай бұрын
Hi Jay, I've always been passionate about philosophy and politics, and recently, it’s paid off. Some old friends mentioned me to a local candidate here in Brazil, and he invited me to join his campaign. To get a better understanding of practical politics (since most of my knowledge comes from books), I started watching your videos. Thank you for your valuable insights, and please keep up the great work! Also a question: do you have any advices for someone like me, that only aspires to be a “helper”, never a candidate?
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
Yes. You can quickly transition from helper to making a living if you become an expert in certain subjects. All candidates need help with expressing their words, raising money, and advertising. Develop your expertise and spend your life being a key advisor to candidates you love. It’s a wonderful life. Jay
@jmdogs97 3 ай бұрын
Being in politics for 2 years and just by doing one speech and meeting/being on local board have launched me in places I would have never thought of being. Just Know the right people by showing up to meetings and volunteering. You never know what kind of connections the local president/board members have. Been told to run for office from people all over my state and even donors from other states willing to donate if I were to run. Took me by surprise but it's a lot of fun. I do have one question, how do you navigate people that take you as a threat? I haven't done anything to anyone but people that plan to run for office think that I will run and take the election seat they have been seeking. I don't plan on running for office for sometime but how to a navigate this kind of Terrain?
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
You are always going to run into people who may also want to run that regard you as a threat to their ambition. It's the nature of politics. So...you have to out-smart and out-hustle them. Be smarter, quicker on your feet, take a measure of their strengths and weakness, and exploit the latter.
@floppados 3 ай бұрын
First of all, thank you for everything you do for us and all of these videos, you are teaching us a new generation stuff thats worth gold. Second thing, what is your opinion on one strategy of party NBP in Russia durring early 2000s, who were challanging Putins authorithy and doing big protest illegal ones like storming into goverment buildings, destroying police baricades etc. In the name of political freedom and political exspresion. In short, do you think that we should fight only trought legal way or we should fight for our freedom trought any means neccesary
@earthweatherandnaturaldisa239 2 ай бұрын
The information in this video is top-notch.i want to ask a question that has been bothering me for awhile. In a state that a Political party has been dominating for over 16 years and their candidates don't perform in office but only give out cash to their leaders, loyal followers in the party for continuity and the electoral members to remain in Power..what can i do differently? Should i join them and find my way to the top in the party? Should I wait till the party divide before i come out? Kindly reply back Jay👏
@jaytownsend22 2 ай бұрын
Your decision-Run against the established order by offering an alternative to the way things are done/letting voters know how they will have a better life if they change course OR joining with the powers that be and trying to tweak things from within. Answer will come when you stare at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what you were put on earth to do
@earthweatherandnaturaldisa239 2 ай бұрын
Thank you sir for the awesome response,I was medicating on your words throughout the day.. I'm from Africa, for the people to acknowledge that this particular candidate is different from the corrupt and Power driven one,such candidate need huge money to achieve majority of his plans and people might still vote for the corrupt candidate if they are bribe(due to the rate of poverty and they don't trust Politicians when they get to office)....these are my concern sir😮
@djuggler_jago 3 ай бұрын
I am getting involved in politics by commenting of The political activities in my area.I advice and shape decisions and I believe it will be easy to step up my game one day.
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
Great. Jay
@zaqwsxcde54321 3 ай бұрын
Dr Townsend, thank you so much if giving away this valuable knowledge for free. If I may, i would like to ask you: what literature you would recommend to read for those wanting to run for office in the future ?
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
high quality news publications. Biographies of great leaders. Inhale books on history. And be sure to read the Art of War by Sun Tzu.
@vinayaksrivastava 3 ай бұрын
Sir what to do when you dont have proper Political Party recruitment structure. In India most Political Parties are unorganised and are family runned . How to get to politics when you dont have political family background.
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
You say ‘most,’ but that doesn’t mean all. Are there any successful parties whose candidates win elections? And if there are none that welcome you , have you considered forming a party of your own?
@vinayaksrivastava 3 ай бұрын
@@jaytownsend22 Thanks Sir for advice. Would try out with parties having structured organization.
@whitequetzal3574 3 ай бұрын
I'm going to run on a platform based on my beliefs, but especially one: re-establishing the asylum system. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic (no, meds don't make you completely normal), my specific diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder, which combines paranoid schizophrenia with both kinds of bipolar and is almost treatment resistant in my case, but with noise cancelling headphones (don't ask me how headphones can block voices in my head, but they do, lol). I'm also an eclectic polytheist so that basically covers the crazy motif xD. Other than that I am hyper-actively anti-abortion, basically other than in cases that endanger the life of a mother abortion should be banned in all cases without exception on a national basis and carry the death penalty for both the doctor and the patient. I am totally in favor of private and public expressions of any religions besides satanism, demon worship, the occult and witchcraft. Other than those four I actually think other religions living here are an imperative for a free society. I am for lifetime spending caps. There should be something like a 2019 $20,000 dollars US lifetime cap on necessary spending for essential things like healthcare, education housing, food, water, electricity and high-speed internet and television with flexible debt repayment especially for the sick, the disabled people and older people, and obviously children will be given these services for free until they're 18. I believe in a negative income tax of 2019 $12,000 US or 2019 $24,000 US depending on what its effects are proven to be, all to incentivize working to earn more money instead of laying about, but the minimum income being high enough to pay back your debts as long as you haven't racked up interest, but you can always declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy, however, often treats the rich poorly, so to not be affluephobic if anyone, anyone at all, has been hit by circumstance, rich or poor, small business, mom&pop shop or giant companies and giant corporations the government should have your back, we're all on the same team. Children should be given a small allowance not accessible to parents for candy, toys, games and gaming consoles, etc. No child should be deprived of a childhood and happiness just because their parents are poor. As long as they're working for us and provably so, there should be a 2-4 track, 2 minutes to be come a resident and receive an ID, 4 years of work and you're a citizen. We should embrace free trade and lower regulations to a minimum to lower prices and to help raise up foreign nations like we did in East Asia, but around the rest of the world. We do, however, need to negotiate better, we need to have consensual trade, and that in the American sense means more of a free trade relationship, but we'll negotiate from a place of good faith. Cybernetic people are people to, and should be paid as much as it would take to make humans to do the same job at the same quality, at the same quantity and able to say no to labor and not to be exploited by humans to send every human a check from the proceeds of cybernetic labor. We should pay African Americans reparations in the form of state enterprises staffed, owned by, and educated toward for them to run. I can imagine them getting into various industries, but the money should be held in trust, otherwise there would be an eternal desire to get more reparations. We must give China, Iraq, Afghanistan, the DPRK, Vietnam and Russia reparations for the horrors of our wars and sanctions, sanctions are war, even if they are not recognized as such. We can start by leasing them our NG and Oil reserves, especially to Russia. We must ban AOE (Area of Effect) weapons. An AOE doesn't hit a person, and every person in that place dies. It should one day be held as a war crime. We should dissolve almost all of our military and rely on it calling up militias. No guerilla force has finally been beaten as long as I can remember (I'm 29), so it must be a new reality of states that defenders get an incredible advantage. Freedom of speech for European Americans cannot be looked at with scorn any longer. Just because you have Caucasian features and are lighter than a paper bag doesn't mean you can't participate in humorous stereotype culture within reason, obviously no one can say absolutely whatever they want on race and religion, but on things like race we must let them participate in humor and there should be special protections for their ability to do so. Hitting or sentencing a white guy to homelessness and starvation for saying something as playful as calling a half Mexican/half German a "beaner-schnitzel" is not going to fly forever. The free trade policies with other first world nations that were incredibly one-sided, especially in the case of Japan have destroyed the manufacturing power of the Midwest, but I must re-address it, as it has doomed half of white America to poverty. The flattening of the Midwest is a huge civil rights issue, and it must be addressed. But over all these things there is the matter of who gets what outside of monetary concerns, and my platform basically is America should be given back to American Indians, and not in a slow process, but a quick and easy one, as in within 6 months. We are merely guests. As someone who is part (24.8%) Mayan/Zapotec and is totally distanced from their culture other than a common feeling, please, let me tell you, there is almost nothing my people(s) wouldn't do to gain back their land, and the tribes up here should have theirs. There is a concept I have that I call the Occupied World, and I think it is a good working definition. The Occupied world spans the Americas, Oceania, the Eastern 2/3 of Russia (besides East Manchuria). We should all be independent or confederated, but every community of people, no matter how small has the inherent right to enter and leave political unions at will. How does this sound as a platform rough draft?
@jaytownsend22 3 ай бұрын
I don't know your jurisdiction, but my guess is that pieces of your platform would be a hard sell. Jay