Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff (Heart) for President
Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, screen name Heart, has announced she is running for President.
When in the course of living our lives, as women, we recognize that once again, as has been true for, by now, centuries in the United States, we can find no presidential candidate on the horizon upon whom we can depend and look to to (1) pay attention to what we say about our lives, our aspirations, our hopes, our needs, our struggles and concerns; (2) faithfully represent and advocate for our interests; (3) make our concerns a priority; (4) work diligently and tirelessly on our behalf; and (5) whom we feel we can trust, then it’s time for us to step up to the plate and take action. So, that’s what I’m doing today.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:14 am
There are several ways for volunteers to help Heart run and further this phase of feminist revolution we have launched, to get Heart and anyone else volunteering to run publicity and on the ballot. The easiest way that comes to mind is to change party. Voting registration forms should be at any Post Office. Write in Free Soil for party, and mail it in or send it to us. For the purposes of voting in primaries, this should be functionally equivalent to registering as an independent. Free Soil has a box at 7131 Owensmouth Ave. Box 109C, Canoga Park, CA 91303. We got the box over twenty years ago, when we first sent the Treaty to Ban Nuclear Aggression to a Chinese embassy.
Anyone could call a talk show, say something like that radfem blogger Heart running for President is writing about feminist revolution, or negotiating to end the war on terror, or how Hillary Clinton sold women out. Those might be short, attention-grabbing, and to the point enough not to get you cut off before you finish the sentence. Then if you are not cut off, you could mention her site and Free Soil, or talk more about your concept of feminist revolution. I am toying with the idea of visiting some progressive blogs to wonder why they waste their time discussing that sad slate of Democratic candidates. Hillary is running partly on the record of her scoundrel in arms Bill. In some respects she may be a reformer, but her idea of reform is to tinker with the status quo. Has she renounced that welfare reform plan yet? Heart and I are skeptical of her, as feminist dreamers, visionaries, women of radical ideas. Politics is supposed to be a free marketplace of ideas. We put the ideas of radical women out front and center as realistic alternatives to the status quo. Men will not agree, will ridicule Heart for ridiculous reasons. If Hillary decides to take notice, she may do likewise. Such tactics will backfire on them, as women will see through it.
The theories underlying how men run things are so self-serving, full of thoughtless and deliberate errors and outright lies and nonsense, it is a wonder anything works right. The political vacuum yawns, with a spineless majority in this Congress more unpopular than Bush. If Mayor Bloomberg jumps in, there could be three men splitting their votes against Heart. People can think no radical woman stands a chance of winning the race for President. If enough women hear about Heart, she stands a good chance. The media may not take notice until they have to, but once they start to attack, Heart will get lots of free publicity. That is the name of the game in politics. I think those attacks will get Heart enough attention to win, with coattails. Then women can get to straightening out the mess men have made of just about everything possible to get wrong. Radical women do not want to work with Republicans to get things done, rather to work to radically change the ways things get done.
There will be an ongoing online strategy conference on the Margins boards. At some point Heart will issue a press release. We may decide to tip off certain feminist organizations first. Since we expect scornful scrutiny of our sites, suggestions for corrections and improvements are fair game and appreciated.
We encourage volunteers to run as a feminist revolutionary for office. We have no illusions of perfect agreement. We all have different ways of seeing things. We all have to deal with male illusions in our own ways. All these ways have value and significance, though none are perfect by the nature of such things.
Cinder, if you have time to set up a Canadian chapter of Free Soil, go for it. You could start a blog, link to Heart and freesoil.org, and write commentary on Canadian news or whatever else really irks you. Once Heart attracts media attention, some of that noise would drift over your way, especially if some candidates for high office are posting there.
Thoughts?
(This announcement is also posted at the link above)
February 26th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Heart has posted her platform at the WordPress blog Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff for President and the Wetpaint wiki Elect Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff
October 6th, 2008 at 7:58 am
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