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KenDckey -> RE: Is Disney Pro or Con Liberal/Conservative or is it just a commercial enterprise making money (9/10/2006 9:41:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MistressWolfen
hmmmmm yes I suppose it does, but I do not think it is directly related to making money, rather it speaks to the right to make and spend money as well as conduct business. Rather I see it as tied to the historic Republican principles of conservatism in that capatalism is an "economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive and private ownership of the means of production. Capitalism encourages private investment and business, compared to a government-controlled economy. Investors in these private companies (i.e. shareholders) also own the firms and are known as capitalists" (Rand, A).
Conservatism is a relative concept and traditionally capitalists were conservative as it suited them to be and forwarded the capitalist cause, thus, a tenous but valid connection. I feel that capitalism stands on it's own merit, as Galambos forwards "It does not depend upon time, place, and circumstance. It is the societal structure that produces freedom by ensuring that each individual is fully (100%) in control of his own property (property being individual man's life and all non-procreative derivatives of his life). Either each individual controls his own life and all of its derivatives or he does not. If he does, capitalisam is the societal structure that prevails by definition."
In my humble opinion it is about much more than making money, but that the right to do so is a part of the political paradigm of capitalism, in that capitalism came to America and was supported by the Republic, further given the two choices in the OP (pro-liberal or pro-conservative), I would have to select pro-conservative (with the qualifiers of tradition and convenience above noted)
and here I thought Disney was pro-Democratic.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=465 which says
Cable companies have grown brazenly monopolistic under the current administration, as evidenced by Time/Warner's recent blacking out ABC from entire regions over a financial dispute.
Multi-media provider Disney has also been a big supporter of Gore. Responding to a request from Tipper, the company provided the Vice President and his wife with free Holloween costumes worth $8,600, in violation of the Ethics in Government Act. When the costumes were reported in the Washington Post, Disney was repaid by the Democratic National Committee. Later Gore and Disney chairman Michael Eisner were regularly seen chumming it up in Washington while the company was seeking Interior Department approval for a new theme park. "Disney's America," was set to open next to the Bull Run battlefield in Manassas Virginia, but the plan was nixed by Disney as it became clear the community wouldn't stand for it.
But the oddest part of the Disney/Gore alliance was yet to come. Disney-known for it's "family" image -- enlisted the Vice President's help fighting the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, designed to limit children's access to pornographic websites. Gore, who called for censoring rock lyrics in the 1980's, dispatched domestic policy advisor David Bier, to kill the legislation. After the beating Disney and Gore took in the press when the story finally emerged, the Vice President tried to help the company's p.r. situation by inviting Disney executives to the White House for "a summit on Internet pornography."
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