Productivity Profiles – Politician Versus Activist
Sometimes it is hard to say where one ends and the other begins. Was Al Gore somehow already developing as a Climate activist when he was still a politician? In the Netherlands arises a new activist, someone who “was” also a politician: Geert Wilders.Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu
The more effort you put in one career the more you will deteriorate the other; the more you invest, the less you will save, the more you direct, the less you will (have time to) think and more activism will make you a weaker politician.
The difference between activism and politics is that the activist has a small political base and is mainly focused on one activity (climate change, environmental, (anti) terror, etc). The politician on the other hand has a broad compromise to serve the different stakes of potential voters.
Wilders — leader of the freedom party — is the man behind the film “Fitna. ” A controversial film about the Koran and the islam.
“Wilders... last month suggested the Dutch government should ban the Koran because he feels it is a book that spreads a pernicious doctrine, just as Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'... The movie aims to demonstrate that “Islam can cost us our freedom if we do not act against it, ” said Wilders. ([http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=19860])
Where the sales representative uses leaflets and brochures, the politician uses propaganda to sell the message. This is normally subjective material like the film Fitna that is used to distribute the “sacred” word. In this case it is not a sacred word, but it is also a belief that another religion will hurt the values of modern (Dutch, European,... ) society. As a leader of the freedom party that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
The problem lies in that the film — I have not seen it — is not believed to be proper propaganda that is material for politicians. The eleventh principles of proper propaganda — inspired by Goebbels — is the principle of unanimity: “having people to convince that they will think like everybody else, creating a false impression of unanimity (es. wikipedia. org/wiki/Propaganda)