Post by greer on Apr 7, 2014 13:58:27 GMT -5
If you look at Ann's page on Wikipedia, there's all kinds of political things. Are these true, or did someone just get confused?
ETA: here's what I'm talking about
ETA: here's what I'm talking about
Despite not being particularly vocal about her political views, in an interview with The New York Times newspaper, Martin stated that she has only ever voted for Democratic Party candidates.
In a televised interview, she identified herself as a "progressive liberal Democrat since the day I was born", stating that she feels that the Democrats best represent her world-view, and that her social and economic views usually align with those of the Democratic Party.
Martin believes that government should be used as a tool to level the economic playing field, to make society as fair as possible for everyone.
She is pro-choice, regarding women's reproductive rights and issues.
Martin is also staunchly secular, believing that society and public life, in addition to making sure that church/religion should be completely separate from government/state, should also guarantee freedom FROM religion to go hand-in-hand with freedom OF religion.
Martin believes that religion should be a completely private thing, and that government should never base policies or legislation on religious views.
She is pro-marriage-equality, supporting the stance that same-sex couples should be treated like and have exactly the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Martin is also a self-described feminist, environmentalist and animal-rights advocate.
Martin has also stated that she always votes for Democrats, despite sometimes feeling dismayed that the party has slowly been sliding even more towards the right-wing of the American political spectrum, gradually but surely morphing into a "Republican-Lite" Party.
She believes that the U.S does not currently even have a two-party system. Rather, it is a one-party state; as in there is only one major political party with two factions: The centrist to centre-right Democrats, who are just a more moderate version of the so-called opposition, which consists of the extremist and far-right conservative Republican Party.
Essentially, both factions are dogmatically capitalist, corporatist, neoliberal and socially conservative. The only difference between them being that the Democrats are just slightly less so; they are the faction that is ever so slightly less dogmatic, hence being the "lesser of the two evils". She hopes that the very few real progressives remaining within the Democratic Party (e.g.: Dennis Kucinich) will eventually succeed in pulling the party back towards the left of the spectrum, someday making the party into a real social-democratic party.
Ideally, she has stated, she would rather vote for a party that is avowedly progressive and espouses social-democracy or at least social-democratic ideals.
She names the NDP (New Democratic Party of Canada) and the Swedish Social Democratic Party as parties that best represent her views globally.
Martin has also stated that voting for the U.S Democrats is the closest thing to being able to vote for a progressive party in the United States without "wasting your vote", due to the current 2-party system that dominates American politics.
If the electoral system were to be changed to one where the overwhelming dominance of the two major parties (Democratic Party and Republican Party) came to an end, Martin would consider the American Social Democratic Party or even the American Green Party.
Martin admires Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader and Elizabeth Warren as American politicians, and also Canadian politicians Tommy Douglas, Jack Layton, Pierre Trudeau and Andrea Horwath.
Among many other reasons, she particularly admires Canada's Tommy Douglas due to his historic introduction of Canada's (and North America's) first single-payer publicly funded universal health care system to Canada (first in the province of Saskatchewan, then nation-wide), as she believes that humanity has evolved to the point where there is really no excuse for health care to not be considered a human right in the United States.
In a televised interview, she identified herself as a "progressive liberal Democrat since the day I was born", stating that she feels that the Democrats best represent her world-view, and that her social and economic views usually align with those of the Democratic Party.
Martin believes that government should be used as a tool to level the economic playing field, to make society as fair as possible for everyone.
She is pro-choice, regarding women's reproductive rights and issues.
Martin is also staunchly secular, believing that society and public life, in addition to making sure that church/religion should be completely separate from government/state, should also guarantee freedom FROM religion to go hand-in-hand with freedom OF religion.
Martin believes that religion should be a completely private thing, and that government should never base policies or legislation on religious views.
She is pro-marriage-equality, supporting the stance that same-sex couples should be treated like and have exactly the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Martin is also a self-described feminist, environmentalist and animal-rights advocate.
Martin has also stated that she always votes for Democrats, despite sometimes feeling dismayed that the party has slowly been sliding even more towards the right-wing of the American political spectrum, gradually but surely morphing into a "Republican-Lite" Party.
She believes that the U.S does not currently even have a two-party system. Rather, it is a one-party state; as in there is only one major political party with two factions: The centrist to centre-right Democrats, who are just a more moderate version of the so-called opposition, which consists of the extremist and far-right conservative Republican Party.
Essentially, both factions are dogmatically capitalist, corporatist, neoliberal and socially conservative. The only difference between them being that the Democrats are just slightly less so; they are the faction that is ever so slightly less dogmatic, hence being the "lesser of the two evils". She hopes that the very few real progressives remaining within the Democratic Party (e.g.: Dennis Kucinich) will eventually succeed in pulling the party back towards the left of the spectrum, someday making the party into a real social-democratic party.
Ideally, she has stated, she would rather vote for a party that is avowedly progressive and espouses social-democracy or at least social-democratic ideals.
She names the NDP (New Democratic Party of Canada) and the Swedish Social Democratic Party as parties that best represent her views globally.
Martin has also stated that voting for the U.S Democrats is the closest thing to being able to vote for a progressive party in the United States without "wasting your vote", due to the current 2-party system that dominates American politics.
If the electoral system were to be changed to one where the overwhelming dominance of the two major parties (Democratic Party and Republican Party) came to an end, Martin would consider the American Social Democratic Party or even the American Green Party.
Martin admires Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader and Elizabeth Warren as American politicians, and also Canadian politicians Tommy Douglas, Jack Layton, Pierre Trudeau and Andrea Horwath.
Among many other reasons, she particularly admires Canada's Tommy Douglas due to his historic introduction of Canada's (and North America's) first single-payer publicly funded universal health care system to Canada (first in the province of Saskatchewan, then nation-wide), as she believes that humanity has evolved to the point where there is really no excuse for health care to not be considered a human right in the United States.
