Activist slogans are to draw sharp attention to an issue - to broaden concern and to make politicians understand it’s a priority.

Political slogans are to maximize votes.

Social media has blurred the line between the two and Democrats are suffering for it.

My followers who are very politically focused are disagreeing.

Activism does not always or even usually have direct pragmatic electoral goals. It’s an earlier step in the change process.

Agree that because of the blur between them, many contemporary activists don’t get that.

So many of the responses are still from people who think the direct purpose of activism is practical politics.

So - we had a paradigm, as outlined in the top tweet. Social media broke it.

IMO fighting about whether activists or politicos are *right* or should be ceded to is not useful. 1/

What might be more useful is thinking about what a new effective paradigm might be, in which the purposes of activism and politicking are both met without destroying each other.