[A]men I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. … But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:1-20)

Why should I run for mayor when I am already king? 1
— Walt Disney

Watered in turn by powerful hurricanes and the blood of martyrs, Florida continues to be the scene of epic battles. Today, my home state of Florida is the site of the crucial battle between representative government and big-tech oligarchic rule. The man elected by the people to promote the common good is Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is “not the kind of Roman Catholic who draws cheers from journalists who admire progressive Catholics.”2 On March 28, 2022, DeSantis signed into law The Parental Rights in Education bill to combat the grooming of small children in Florida’s classrooms. This daring act landed him astride the broad back of Bucking Bull Bob Chapek, Walt Disney’s CEO, who was immediately roused out of the gate by the Left to, according to DeSantis, mobilize his “considerable corporate resources out of the coffers” of his “Burbank, CA-based corporation to overturn the rights of parents in the State of Florida, and effectively commandeer our democratic process.”3 As Chapek lunged and bucked, DeSantis set-in his spurs and revoked Disney’s special self-governing tax-free status, which caused the clowns prodding Chapek along to call DeSantis a communist, fascist, spawn of Putin, rapist, etc.

This rodeo showdown taking place proves Walt Disney lost the battle he was fighting 80 years earlier when he commanded his employees to ask themselves, “AM I A LOYAL AMERICAN OR A LOYAL DUPE…anyone who knows the facts and fails to speak out in this hour of national emergency must be judged as equally guilty with those who are seeking the destruction of DEMOCRACY.”4 Walt Disney, a Protestant, lost the battle because the business he created to foster innocence, family life, and Christian virtues has been completely co-opted by Hollywood to overthrow the democratic process and to promote degeneracy, especially among the nation’s most vulnerable and impressionable, the very people Walt wanted to protect the most. Right now, DeSantis is holding his ground and upholding the decision of the majority, but the real battle is the battle over the minds of men, which Hollywood will do anything and everything to control. It also reveals that, contrary to what the media want to portray, Walt was able to identify his enemies.

To begin the story of Walt Disney’s takeover and its attempted overthrow of Florida’s government, we must begin with the man Walter Elias Disney, a typical American, who came into being in the typical way. Walt’s father, Elias Disney was a first-generation American, of Protestant Irish origins. Elias was a “hard man,” who “worked hard, lived modestly, and worshiped devoutly.” According to Walt, Elias believed in walking a straight and narrow path. He neither smoked nor drank, nor cursed or caroused. “The only diversion he allowed himself as a young man was playing the fiddle, and even then his upbringing was so strict that as a boy he would have to sneak off into the woods to practice. He spoke deliberately, rationing his words, and generally kept his emotions in check, save for his anger, which could erupt violently.”5

According to biographer Marc Eliot, however, Walt’s father was a bit more complicated. Eliot describes him as hardworking, yet restless, as musical and an entrepreneur. A romantic, Elias traveled to Florida to find his Kansas sweetheart, where her family, the Calls, originally from Boston and upstate New York, had finally settled. Elias and Flora Disney lived a few years first in Daytona Beach and then in Kissimmee where Elias managed his own orange grove until the record frost of 1889. In 1890, the Disneys followed Elias’s financially savvy brother Robert to Chicago, where Walt was born in 1901, the fourth son of Elias and Flora Disney. In Chicago, not only did Elias help build another building for his Congregational parish, but he also preached in it. Flora recalls that Elias was pretty good at preaching because “he did a lot of that at home, you know.”6 According to Eliot, after Elias became a member of the American Social Democratic party, Disney family’s evening dinners would include “long diatribes by Elias against the capitalist system and the exploitation of America’s working class by the international conspiracy of wealthy Jews in control of the world’s investment banks.” Eliot seems to consider these diatribes unfounded and attributes them to jealousy on the part of Elias for not being able to “play the capitalist game.”7 But Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the great-uncle of Pope Benedict XVI, had already pointed out in 1892 that envy was not the cause of the working man’s bitter feelings, but rather “indignation at the unjust appropriation of value” which was the result of usury, which was immoral. This corruption of Christian societies occurred ten years after the French Revolution, when “the necessary protections for the social order were lifted immediately and universally” by Napoleon. Once this happened it was only a matter of time before the Jews with their attitude toward business and commerce would gain the upper hand.”8 The question of “necessary protections” against Jewish conspiracies and practices would come to the forefront during Walt Disney’s life and determine the direction of Walt Disney Studios after his death.

When Elias’s brother, “Gold bug” Robert, bought a 500-acre fruit and stock farm in Marceline, Missouri, Elias took the opportunity to move his family once again. Walt was four years old, and the move was important for his formation. In fact, “He would remember it more vividly than anything else in his childhood….”9 Like a scene out of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:

Game abounded; there were foxes, rabbits, squirrels, opossums, and raccoons. And there were birds…. Of the forty-five acres, five were planted with orchards, apple, peach, and plum trees with grapevines and berry plants…. And there was a hog pen, chickens, a few milk cows, and four to six horses. “It was just heaven for city kids,” …. it was, in the words of Elias’s aunt, “a very handsome [sic] place….”10

The town of Marceline was a product of the railroad boom, and it provided Walt with a cultural education because in Marceline he saw his first circus and attended his first Chautauqua, a traveling tent show that featured the leading orators of the day. Walt acted in a touring company performance of Maude Adams’ play which ended with Walt flying into the arms of his audience. The most powerful part of the Marceline experience, however, was that of being among his extended family members and a wholesome community that cared for one another and worked together on their farms. All of Walt’s older brothers and his sister Ruth lived at home, where they would be visited by Elias’s brothers. Elias, who played the fiddle, would provide entertainment for the neighbors. Walt enjoyed visits from his uncle Mike Martin, a train engineer who would bring candy in a striped bag for the children. Walt was able to go on walks and spend time with Mary Richardson Disney, his Irish grandmother who would encourage Walt to mortify her straitlaced son, Elias, through mischievousness and pranks which Walt relished. The effects of Marceline on Disney could be felt, “on Disneyland’s Main Street, U.S.A., or on its Tom Sawyer Island, or on the live-action films like So Dear to My Heart and Pollyanna that were steeped in smalltown life and extolled small-town virtues, or even on the early cartoons’ preoccupation with farm life and animals….”11

Newspaper Delivery Route

A lot of the country pleasantness ended, however, when Elias’s oldest sons Herbert and Ray defected overnight to get away from their overly controlling and abusive father, who was insisting on managing their income. When Walt’s father grew ill, the family returned to Kansas City, and Elias purchased a thousand-customer newspaper delivery route which his youngest sons helped run. Those newspapers exposed Walt to cartoons. In 1911, Roy, who had been Walt’s refuge and playmate left home, too. This is important because it left Walt alone with Elias Disney who “used corporal punishment to enforce maximum productivity and thought nothing of taking a switch to his sons, or the fat part of his leather belt….” These corrective beatings were administered at “the slightest provocation.”12 While this type of unpredictable and irrational violent anger could be terrifying for children it was not uncommon among families of that generation. Ruth Disney argued that Elias made up for his abusiveness in other ways,13 but because of it, Roy became Walt’s surrogate father, and it was in “his arms that Walt found both the protective warmth he longed for from his mother and the feel of his father’s brute strength.”14 Walt’s biographer Eliot seems to want to insinuate that Walt was a homosexual because as a boy he wet the bed at night out of distress, put on his mother’s clothes and makeup during the day, later had trouble consummating his marriage, and had periods of impotency. He also showed jealousy over Roy and his relationship with his future wife.

At the Heart of Jealousy

Impotency and jealousy toward women is common among homosexuals because as boys they had to compete with their mother for their father’s attention and lost. Flora, for example, was the only person who could calm Elias down, but she did it gracefully “without confronting or countermandering him.”15 This means that Elias had a personal, tender affection for Flora that his sons found they could not obtain for themselves no matter how hard they worked. Homosexuals frequently note that this situation inspires feelings of hurt and jealousy toward the mother and hence women. It may also cause them to act out a hostile caricature of the female sex in an unconscious attempt to attract the father figure. Walt, for instance, was the only boy to choose domestic science (homemaking) over the manual arts in seventh grade.16 A lack of real affection, positive attention, and tender affirmation from the father, combined with deep hostility or contempt toward women makes it difficult for some men to feel attracted to adult females because they feel overwhelmed, inadequate, and disgusted. Walt may have experienced these feelings, but not to the extent where they rose to the level of hatred of women. To him, his mother had a soothing and expressive voice and she happily participated in his pranks. For this reason, Walt behaved like a gentleman around women, and he remained loyal to his wife until death. He was also attracted to women who were not as passive as his mother. When a teacher defended her girl students by slapping Walt when he brought a mouse to class, Walt admitted he “loved” the teacher all the more for it.17 He was “starved”18 for this type of deeper response and direct attention from a women.

Unlike Eliot, biographer Neal Gabler claims that Walt “was full of clowning…. He was very lighthearted all the time. Very full of fun and gaiety,”19 but the overly smiley, people-pleasing, attention-seeking persona is also typical of homosexuals. Walt enjoyed performing and applause so much that “he even began to think of acting as a career.”20 This further implicates Walt because performing on stage also tends to be very attractive to homosexuals. The late psychologist Joseph Nicolosi wrote that it is very common for the more naturally sensitive boy to give up the fight for his masculinity, shut down emotionally, and enter the “rich, escapist world of fantasy and acting” which is what Gabler seems to be confirming when he writes, “In entertainment Walt Disney had found another escape.”21 Acting “reduces the painful loss” of attachment to the parent of the same sex and allows him to express himself through the false-self.22 The false self is “characterized by a pleasant exterior but an unconnectedness with others and a preoccupation with self-protection”23 through posturing and studied mannerisms.

Walt seems to have suffered from father deprivation, the main cause of homosexuality according to Nicolosi, because Elias was not only violent but also distant, “so unapproachable and obdurate that,” Walt said, “he scarcely talked to him.”24 Walt also felt that he could not confide in his mother, who was passive when Walt and his brothers were being punished. This compounded the father deprivation problem; if the mother is not emotionally available or if she is habitually intrusive and overbearing, a boy may learn to shut down emotionally, and at three or four years old he can carry this habit into his relationship with his father. If the father doesn’t take the initiative to bond and interact, the boy shuts down forever. The boy who shuts down emotionally to avoid the terror of abandonment and crushing shame of rejection blocks his emotions at a young age. He assumes that he is unworthy of paternal affection because he is in some way defective. His behavior becomes shame-based and shame-sensitive, and the trauma of parental rejection is triggered throughout his life whenever any shame is experienced. Also, if the father is strong but not good or good but not strong, the boy may reject masculinity, preferring the safety of the mother’s attributes, like her smell and her disciplinary toughness. When the boy becomes disconnected from his own emotions and therefore his male body, he creates a false “good” self with which he engages other people or becomes an exhibitionist so that he can deal with his shame (distorted self-perception) and his narcissism (unrealistic positive image to combat the negative messages).25

Walt fits some of these categories. For example, in order to seem attractive, he was purposely extroverted and “always focused on whomever he was speaking with,” so that “he ‘gave the impression he took a deep personal interest.’”26 Walt was the family member who remembered everyone’s birthday and consequently always got a present himself. The case for Walt’s homosexuality falls apart, however, because Flora Disney was not as intrusive or manipulative as the mothers of most homosexuals. Walt was free to act out as a male because Flora did not try to squash male attributes. Flora did not force Walt into conforming to the manipulative mother’s idea of a “good little boy.” Walt also had older males available who showed him tender affection and how to relate effectively with other males. Roy for example, taught Walt to defend himself from a beating by taking his dad’s wrists and staring into his eyes, which caused his father to desist. Instead of shutting down and hiding his emotions, Walt fought back by authentically expressing his true emotions, he “would position a chair” between himself and his father and “just argue the dickens out of Dad.”27 Instead of throwing in the towel, Walt related to his dad by playing pranks on him until Elias himself had to laugh till he cried, like the time Walt put a bladder under Elias’s plate, which lifted and moved the plate while Elias ate unaware of the fact. Neal Gabler, who read Marc Eliot’s Hollywood’s Dark Prince, also defends Walt when he gives a more detailed account of Walt dressing up as a woman: Flora opened the door to find a tall woman wearing her dress and hat who asked her “a lot of foolish questions.”28 Father deprivation did not lead to homosexuality because Walt’s older brother Roy had willingly taken a paternal role in Walt’s life, “He would buy Walt and Ruth toys out of his earnings from the bank where he clerked.” He would play with them and take them to the movies.

The violence and terror Walt experienced in his early childhood and the baptismal grace (acquired at infancy) to grow in virtue was an impetus for…

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