Posted on 04/10/2022 4:20:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Watching the downfall of Walt Disney’s iconic legacy stirs some powerful emotions, and for many of us, a great sense of loss. I understand the frustration and anger parents feel at such a betrayal, but as I look on at the justifiable uprising, all I can feel is profound sadness.
Disney has been an American institution for almost a century old. I grew up wishing upon a star and dreaming one day my prince would come. “Happily ever after” may seem like a fairytale cliché, but for a little girl facing dark days, it was something real to believe in, hope for, and hold on to.
Our family has grown up on Disney for four generations. It was something you could count on to inspire little girls and boys to be the best they could be, reach for the stars and follow their dreams. I will never forget how excited we all were the first time we went to Disneyland for military appreciation day. I was almost 30 at the time but it still stirred that little princess in me. It was a magical day that lit up the eyes of our children and created memories to last a lifetime. But somewhere along the line Disney executives decided family values weren’t cool anymore. While they’ve been slowly purging those trusted values, we’ve grasped at anything good there was left to hold onto. But there is little to hold on to when Disney executives are no longer just purging family values, but aggressively attacking them altogether.
The Disney I used to know put the safety of children above political hypocrisies and radical agendas. It was a place where innovation was a daily discovery and Imaginarium was a real word. It was not just a place or a film. It was a belief, even adults embraced, that dreams really can come true.
Unfortunately, Disney has gone the way of too many corporations who believe “woke” is a badge of honor and think Twitter is the real world. They have been ill-advised, bullied, and intimidated into believing abandoning their core mission and alienating their consumer base is the “cool” thing to do. But there are consequences, and it would be wise for Disney to learn from the sports industry and realize American consumers don’t want agendas shoved down their throats, they just want to enjoy a good game and have fun at a park.
Moms are hungering for anything good, true, and beautiful because there is a serious lack of it in the world today. Everything that used to support us as parents are now going against us. As Stephen Covey states in his best-seller Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families, “In the past, it was easier to raise a family…because society was an ally, a resource. People were surrounded by role models, examples, media reinforcement, and family-friendly laws and support systems that sustained marriage and helped create strong families…Success was much more a matter of ‘going with the flow. But the jet stream has changed—dramatically. And to ‘go with the flow’ today is family-fatal.”
Covey is so right, and the fatalities are stacking up. We’ve seen firsthand how the deceptive “inclusion and diversity” cancer has infiltrated every aspect of our society promoting the very opposite of what the words imply. The “inclusion and diversity” mantra promotes exclusion and creates divisiveness. That is why moms are pushing back. It is why we’re taking time from our busy days and full schedules to write letters, make phone calls and stand outside Disney theme parks with flags and signs. We’re tired of being ignored. We’ve lost too much, and we’re not willing to lose anymore.
I hope that Disney executives listen to all the parents speaking up and realize it is we who guide markets and shape cultures, not “diversity experts” trained in lies and deceit. We are the ones that watch movies, visit theme parks, and buy mouse ears. But if all our letters, phone calls, and rallies fall on deaf ears we, as moms, will create the change we wish to see in the world—beginning in our own homes. As moms, hope is reflected in our vision of the future, and we are creating that future in our homes right now. If we don’t like what we see, we have the power to change it!
Dreams really do come true, and my dream is a future of leaders, dreamers, and patriots, who will stand for truth, respect life, defend the family, and cherish freedom. And one day, our little dreamers will replace the mindless robots and empty suits filling corporate halls and return Disney to the dream it once was and begin imagining again.
... is long dead.
A company so heavily invested in fantasy is likely to embrace it to the point of absurdity. Mass deception under the guise of innocence.
It is not just the disney company. It is our entire society. The communists lost the cold war but won the culture war.
Well, the same goes for perverts working for Disney.
Chilluns.
yes, from the beginning; embracing witchcraft and projecting parents as buffoons, just to name a few areas Disney degraded our culture.
Libs destroy everything they touch. They have been doing to to language for a long time…
I never went to Disneyland or the theme park in Florida, I have no wish to. Walking around going on rides is not for me.
But Disney has made some very good animated films with stunning artwork and that for me is a loss. The wokeness that has been creeping into those is disappointing and has stopped me from appreciating and viewing them. The art community working in those films are young and indoctrinated, they are sadly liberal to the core and seem to me to follow Disney like the pied piper to enslavement.
I’m waiting until I can find that on a window decal ...
They may have a Cricut® or a Silhouette© machine that can whip you up a sign in minutes.
My daughter and wife each have one and everything that cannot escape their grasp receives a label or witty saying.
Disney World is basically just standing in line all day, even with a FastPass
It was once a magical place......we are an hour away, so of course, we took our children......
....but they are grown.....and Disney isn’t and hasn’t been....magical....for many years.
And they’re not even trying to hide their agenda anymore!
I think they have destroyed their brand!
A graphic design guy is needed to show the classic image of the Disney Castle slipping away to reveal the evil Mordor of Mt. Doom.
When I was growing up, the pervs used candy for bait. The candy was great, but the pervs were just as pervy.
They have created a great business opportunity.
Ditto. Disney has always had a lot of gay people working there. The militant gays have taken over, apparently. The new word, that they hate to hear, is "groomer".
Really looked forward to the show
The last time my family was at Disney World, pleasure island had just opened. After seeing the debauchery after that and the startup of gay day, that was it. We haven’t gone back. Too expensive, too hot, and too crowded.
Then it’s time for conservatives to form their own entertainment companies and make films for freedom lovers. I still love the older Disney movies though.
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