How can you become a member of a political party?

Answer 1

1. It helps to have no skeletons in your closet, or if you do, they are well hidden or easily explained.

2. If you are not of a wealthy and connected family, you will typically start at the local level.

3. If you are a moderately prosperous citizen, you may present yourself to one of the local parties as a viable candidate for them to back. Participating in previous campaigns of their's will have helped establish your commitment to their goals.

4. If you are a "regular joe", or if you just wish to avoid political parties, you may find a local "hot button issue" that those in power are not sufficiently dealing with. You would then attract a group of like minded people who can assist you in your campaign.

5. You should learn to manage the press for free publicity. If you are backed by a party, they will help you with this. If you are not backed, you may do flamboyant things to attract attention.

6. You should raise as much funds as possible for campaigning, as whoever has the biggest advertising budget has a greater chance of winning. The party backing you may assist, but even then, you need to approach the "movers and shakers" who have money, and convince them that you would be of assistance to them if you won.

7. You should avoid specifically slandering your opponent/s, but should make sure that supporters of your's do so.

8. Having won, you should always be an honest politician, which for practical purposes means that if you are bought, stay bought. The support of the monied classes has historically paid off better than the support of the masses.

9. If you do well enough pleasing your backers, your party and even the people in general, you can start to climb up. From local councilman or alderman, you could go on to Mayor, or if possible, skip that and move to state representative. From there you would be looking to a Cabinet appointment from the governor, or lieutenant governorship. At some point past that, if all goes well, governorship or becoming a representative or senator for your state at the national level would be next.

After being a governor or congressman, one would seek a national cabinet appointment or vice presidency, or if possible, go straight to the Presidency.

10. The higher up you go, the more you will have to be known to be reliable to those who matter. This means in part that you keep your reputation well, that you do not renege on implied promises to your financial backers, you handle the press well, and don't embarass the party with displays of disloyalty or public improprieties. A party is all but essential past the local level. At the state level, you may get away with being of a third party, but for the nationals you should be with the Republicans or Democrats.

Answer 2

In today's world most of the countries are democracies. As you know, in a democracy a legislative body(parliament) is there which is elected by the people. The leaders of the parliament are elected by the people on the basis of "one man, one vote". It means that every person in a democracy has one vote and each vote has one value. So, if the majority of persons in an area favor a candidate then he/she will get elected. As every democracy does not violate the law of eqality it becomes necessary to have the support of majority. We, the people form the majority, and elect our leaders. So, every person becomes a part of parliament.

Answer 3

It's not difficult at all. First, do some research on the various political parties. The major ones are the Democrats and the Republicans, but there are smaller parties like the Libertarians, the Green Party, and others. Once you find a party whose views are in line with your own, you can simply declare yourself a member; you may also want to volunteer to help some of that party's candidates to get elected to office. Also, when you register to vote in primary elections (where you have to select a party), you will be asked which party you support, and then given a ballot for that party's candidates.

Answer 4

To become a politician, you run for an elective office.

Answer 5

One way is joining the military.

Answer 6

If you are employed by any agency or organization which makes up the executive branch, you are, by defnition, then a member of it.

Answer 7

It depends on the government. Usually, it just involves running for office or accepting an open position in part of the bureaucracy that forms the government.

Answer 8

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