According to a new Gallup survey.... Americans are getting sick and tired of being lectured by corporations like these... though it probably won't come as a surprise that a majority of Democrats are still in support, given that the vast majority of companies who take public sides on issues like gun control embrace the Left's ideology.
Less than half of U.S. adults (41%) believe businesses should take a public stance on current events, down from 48% in 2022.The latest findings from the Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report are based on a web survey with 5,458 U.S. adults conducted May 8-15, 2023, using the probability-based Gallup Panel.
Political party identification has the strongest influence on whether Americans believe corporations should take a public stance. Most Democrats (62%) believe businesses should take a public stance on current events, compared with just 17% of Republicans and 36% of independents. While still high, the percentage of Democrats who believe businesses should take a stance has declined from 75% in 2022. The percentage of independents reporting companies should take a stance has declined slightly, by four percentage points, while Republicans' views on this issue have remained essentially unchanged.
The 13-point drop in support among Democrats is actually the largest decline of any of the three political ideologies surveyed, so even though roughly two-thirds of the Democrats who were surveyed are still supportive of corporate lectures on social responsibility, even on the Left there's clearly a growing weariness over being told what to think, do, or say from big corporations.
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Younger Americans are the most supportive of the actions of companies like Levi's, but even there less than half of 18-to-29-year-olds who were surveyed say they're in favor of corporate support for gun control. I'm happy to report that my own age demographic is the least supportive of these efforts to sway public opinion, with just one-third of 45-to-59-year-olds in favor.
Gen X is Best Gen.
Relatedly, Rasmussen just released a poll showing the effect of Disney's Culture Warring on its public reputation. What was once a universally-beloved brand is now mistrusted or hated by 40% of the country.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of American Adults view the Disney entertainment corporation favorably, including 22% who have a Very Favorable impression. Forty percent (40%) have an unfavorable opinion of Disney, including 21% with a Very Unfavorable impression. These findings have changed little since March.
The rest of the findings require a subscription, or you can just listen to Valiant Renegade, who subscribed to get the poll details.
Here are some of those details:
62% of Democrats view Disney favorably. Of course, the company is being run as the Campaign Committee for Bob Iger for President 2028.
On the other hand, 61% of Republicans have an unfavorable impression of the Woke Propaganda Groomer Corporation.
Independents are closer to Democrats -- 58% favorable, 32% unfavorable -- reinforcing the common belief that "independents" are just people who don't follow the news much.
Asked if Bob Iger's promise to "quiet the noise" on the culture war issue would help or hurt Disney, 26% said that avoiding politics would help Disney. 21% of woke zombies said it would hurt Disney. 44% said that it would make no difference. That number probably includes people who don't understand/don't care that Disney is a groomer company and leftwing propaganda outfit, and some people who are saying that Disney's efforts at this point to "quiet the noise" of the culture war will not win them back as customers. Hard to know how to divide up the 44% into those silos.
And how is Iger's initiative to "quiet the noise" on Disney's vile culture warring going? Great! Great so far! Disney's ESPN just signed the racist Affirmative Action Embezzler Henry "Ibram X. Kendi" Rogers to do a show on, get this, race.
Fox News reported Wednesday that Kendi, "an anti-racist activist who founded the Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research, debuted a new ESPN series, 'Skin in the Game,' to dissect racism in sports." That Center for Antiracist Research is not the glittering resume item it may appear to be (at least to leftist dopes) at first glance. After receiving millions of dollars in donations, much of which is unaccounted for, the Center folded last "amid allegations of mismanagement."
BU Professor Saida Grundy, who was the Center's Assistant Director of Narrative (now there's a quintessentially leftist title), admitted: "I don't know where the money is." Nor does Kendi, apparently. But the sought-after activist has already moved on. His new show, which premiered on ESPN+ late last month, 'delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports, while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies.'"
What a surprise! The guy who has no expertise except in Bein' a Black Whiner is doing a show about Bein' a Black Whiner. And Bob Iger's paying the embezzler to do it!
Forbes got hold of the UK tax filings for the Disney flop The Little Race-Bent Mermaid. Turns out it wasn't a flop. It was a disaster.
Disney lost even more money on its woke Little Mermaid remake than had been reported.
Previous budget reports said the movie cost $250 million to produce. The actual budget, per this report at Forbes, was $300 million, which does not include promotion costs.
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So, to try and make The Little Mermaid look like it might have actually made a profit, the number of $250 million leaked out somehow. Nope. More like $300 million, and it seems benevolent on my part to add only $100 million to the budget for promotion, which would make the total budget $400 million.
Unfortunately for the Disney groomers, The Little Mermaid flamed out at the worldwide box office with an anemic $567 million haul. When you've spent $400 million on a movie that grosses $567 million from a box office where about 50 percent of that $567 million stays with exhibitors, you are looking at a serious loss.
A $400 million movie would have to sell $800 million in tickets before it starts making any money at all.