
Disney World is meant to be an escape. You go there for a week and forget about the real world. Anything that happens outside of that Disney bubble isn’t important. Until you have to leave, the real world comes crashing down on you, and that’s when you start planning your next trip back to Disney.
But now, life inside that Disney bubble has gotten complicated. The feud between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company has drawn politics into Disney and divided the entire Disney Adult community.
Discussing Walt Disney World or Disney movies used to be apolitical, but with Governor DeSantis running for President, he has accused Disney of “grooming” and “sexualizing” children. For his part, Disney CEO Bob Iger has called those claims “preposterous and inaccurate.” But with the claims out there, people are starting to look at Disney Adults differently.
One fan told the Huffington Post:
That’s the whole reason you go to Disney, is to escape that kind of stuff. That was one of the nice things: You could just go there and enjoy the fantasy. Why should you be thinking that I’m a Republican or a Democrat because of the fact that we like to go to the happiest place on earth with our children? That’s what this created, and that should have never been allowed to happen.
Disney fans have nothing to do with passing legislation, parental rights, or Florida law, but somehow they have been dragging into this fight. They just want to go to Disney World and not worry about who the governor of Florida is.
But as Disney and DeSantis’ board continue to fight over government retaliation and a special district in Federal Court, it doesn’t seem like this is going away anytime soon for Disney adults. Each person will have to decide for themselves how to handle this culture war.