Why the Magic Is Leaving the Kingdom at Disney

[Ben Shapiro]

There is a brand new Rasmussen Reports survey previewed exclusively by Daily
Wire about Disney.

I have long had tremendous admiration for Disney. Until a few years ago, when
we lived in California, we were annual passholders of Disneyland. It was the
best place to go with your kids. I have pictures with my parents from when I
was a small kid at Disneyland. My fourth date with my wife was at Disneyland.
I loved Disney products. I was a big Disney fan.

Then a few years ago they decided to go completely woke and move to the Left.
They started injecting LGBTQ messaging into their programming, particularly
for kids.

This was despicable because they took legacy properties which they were still
making money on and simultaneously promoted a woke Left-wing agenda that
targeted children.

That’s what Disney’s been doing.

The Rasmussen Reports survey, conducted in late September, shows that 60% of
Republicans have an unfavorable opinion of Disney, including 35% who say they
have a _very_ unfavorable opinion. Only 32% of Republicans have a favorable
view.

For Democrats, the results are precisely the opposite, because a lot of
Democrats are perfectly happy with spoon-feeding a bunch of leftist tropes
into children's programming. This is no surprise.

In addition to the Rasmussen Reports survey, another study came out just
yesterday from GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The
big Hollywood studios prescreen their films and TV shows for GLAAD's Board of
Censors, and GLAAD determines whether or not the product is acceptable to
them. GLAAD’s report has rated major Hollywood studios based on how much
LGBTQ content the studios are squeezing into their product.

They found that Disney is the top company along with Netflix. According to
GLAAD’s statistics, they give Disney a 41% rating, which is a good rating.
Disney made 59 total films; 24 of them were LGBTQ inclusive. Next to Warner
Brothers Discovery, Disney had the highest rate. They are one of only three
studios that received a good rating from GLAAD.

All of this is designed for a purpose and the purpose for a kids’ company
like Disney is to target children. It's one thing for Netflix to do this sort
of stuff. Netflix is not largely designed for children, but Disney is
designed explicitly for children.

Disney has decided that they wish — in the words of one of their own
animators — to sledgehammer you with their not-at-all-secret gay agenda.