Abigail Disney is heiress to the Disney fortune. Walt Disney was her great uncle. She is also a documentary film-maker and generous philanthropist.
I recently discovered a CNBC interview and a short film in which she argues for the importance of higher taxes on the top 1% of Americans. This, obviously, includes her and her family fortune.
She is a rare person. A very wealthy woman who recognizes the structural injustices and systemic inequality built into American society.
The first clip is from an interview on CNBC.
Pay close attention to the obvious pro-status quo, business-as-usual bias on display by the three network anchors asking her questions. It’s not actually an interview as much as it is an interrogation.
It’s another example of the typical shallowness that passes as insight for our corporate media. The older fellow on the far right clearly thinks tha Ms. Disney is nuts.
But we have always known that the capitalist, moneyed class hates those it sees as traitors to their class.
Ms. Disney targets the recent Trump tax overhaul, its excessive benefits for the rich and its favoritism for large corporations. Watch it here.
The second clip comes from “Now This.” Here Ms. Disney explains a few of the ways in which Trump’s tax cuts have enriched the already super-rich while doing little or nothing for the poor and the middle-class. Watch it here.
Remember, we are living in the midst of class-warfare, folks.
And, guess what. You and I are on the losing side.
