What HBO's 'The Dark Money Game' won't tell you about the left

"The Dark Money Game" – 2 caller feature-length documentaries from Alex Gibney that debuted this week connected HBO marque it dependable similar the network’s initials basal for Helping Bernie connected Oligarchy. Some leftist journalists and filmmakers person suggested Donald Trump represents the extremity of American democracy, but the bitterest socialists suggest ideology was ended by the Supreme Court successful the 2010 Citizens United decision.

To paraphrase a celebrated slope commercial, it’s seemingly the worst determination successful the past of decisions.

Radical documentarian Gibney – dyspeptic capable that helium told the Daily Beast successful 2013 that Pope Benedict XVI was a "criminal" – made 2 films nether the heading "The Dark Money Case." They debuted this week connected HBO. In the 2 documentaries, helium uncorked a ample conspiracy theory, that spiritual conservatives and rapacious firm capitalists person overthrown ideology since 2010. This conspiracy was realized with the assistance of those evil conservatives astatine the Federalist Society.

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The archetypal of the 2 Gibney documentaries, "Ohio Confidential," is astir a bribery strategy wrong the Republican Party, but to Gibney the "corruption" successful Ohio included the transition of a pro-life bill. "Flush with run currency from acheronian wealth donors, the anti-abortion broadside was each smiles, similar a squad that plays the crippled knowing the hole is in."

All the journalism exposing acheronian wealth from George Soros oregon Reid Hoffman oregon Arabella Advisors oregon Act Blue is ne'er going to get a infinitesimal connected HBO. Ohio’s ungraded is presented arsenic a nationalist ungraded for the GOP.  But, immoderate section ungraded for the Democrats is ne'er national.

Gibney was inspired by leftist New Yorker writer Jane Mayer and her 2017 publication "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right." She echoed the thought that a pro-life measure successful Ohio represented "private interests" taking implicit politics. When the Left loses, the "public interest" loses.

In ‘The Dark Money Game,’ Alex Gibney uncorks a ample conspiracy theory, that spiritual conservatives and rapacious firm capitalists person overthrown ideology since 2010. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Journalists should exposure bribery erstwhile it happens successful politics, of course, but Gibney and HBO proceed arsenic if 1 broadside of the ideology is corrupt, and that "dark money" is someway thing that is ne'er scandalous erstwhile employed connected behalf of the Left. So, each the journalism exposing George Soros oregon Reid Hoffman oregon Arabella Advisors oregon Act Blue is ne'er going to get a infinitesimal connected HBO. Ohio’s ungraded is presented arsenic a nationalist ungraded for the GOP. But immoderate section ungraded for the Democrats is ne'er national.

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The 2nd Gibney documentary, "Wealth of the Wicked," focuses connected the root of the Citizens United case, however the McCain-Feingold "campaign reform" measure made it amerciable for the radical Citizens United to aerial ads for its movie "Hillary: The Movie" wrong 60 days of an election. "Campaign reform" was designed to forestall conservatives from going astir the wide media elite with captious films astir Democrats. Now they effort to suppress that accusation arsenic a "misinformation" offense.

Mayer complained that successful 90% of races, the campaigner spending the astir wealth is the winner.  "And if you person truthful overmuch much wealth than the different broadside has, you tin wholly drown retired the different side."

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The occupation with an statement similar this is that galore House and Senate races are not competitive. According to Ballotpedia, successful 2024, 43 House and Senate candidates won an predetermination by 5 percent points oregon fewer, representing 9% of each legislature elections. Eighty candidates won an predetermination by 10 percent points oregon fewer, representing 17% of each legislature elections. Candidates who aren’t expected to person a accidental won’t get funded.

Then there’s the umbrage astir "completely drowning retired the different side." This is unintentionally hilarious, due to the fact that these Gibney films for HBO ever drown retired the different side. In this case, Gibney offered "conservatives" similar erstwhile pro-lifer Rob Schenck, who is present successful favour of abortion. Hence, they are nary longer conservatives.

Schenck underlined the Gibney thesis: "We person a small aphorism built connected a Bible verse: ‘The wealthiness of the wicked is laid up for the righteous.’ So, yeah, let’s baptize the billionaires’ money. We tin bash that and it yet brought unneurotic this alliance."

The leftist critique of large wealth successful politics, and their demands to someway region it, is utopian wishful thinking.  Trying to instrumentality wealth retired of authorities is similar trying to instrumentality the bark retired of dogs. It can’t beryllium done. It’s particularly near-sighted due to the fact that it doesn’t admit the centrality of TV advertizing and the quality media successful campaigns.

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The Left complains that code is money, but leftist journalists tin propagandize connected HBO and that someway doesn’t number arsenic "money successful politics," which it surely is. What’s the advertizing equivalent of that benignant of airtime? The Left doesn’t spot it that way, due to the fact that dominating the nationalist treatment is what they specify arsenic democracy.

"Non-commercial" non-capitalist media outlets similar PBS and NPR beforehand a batch of leftist messaging and drown retired conservatives, which represents Gibney’s extremist extremity of "taking the wealth out." But they’re taking the wealth retired of blimpish pockets and utilizing it to smear them. That’s someway the antonym of "oligarchy." Documentaries similar these connote the governmental strategy is unfair erstwhile conservatives triumph anything. 

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