{"id":38582,"date":"2018-10-02T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38582"},"modified":"2018-10-02T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:29:54","slug":"new-dark-money-documentary-shines-light-into-the-shadows-cast-by-the-super-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38582","title":{"rendered":"New “Dark Money” Documentary Shines Light Into the Shadows Cast by the Super-Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW \u201cDARK MONEY\u201d DOCUMENTARY SHINES LIGHT INTO THE SHADOWS CAST BY THE SUPER-RICH<\/a><\/h3>\n
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IF YOU, LIKE<\/u> most Americans, believe you\u2019re being screwed by the U.S. political system, and would like to know exactly how the screwing functions, tune into \u201cDark Money<\/a>,\u201d a new documentary premiering Monday, October 1 on PBS. The film, directed by Kimberly Reed, is one of the most expert dissections ever conducted of the subterranean tentacles quietly strangling U.S. democracy. (\u201cDark Money\u201d was co-funded by Topic Studios, which is part of First Look Media, along with The Intercept.)<\/p>\n

The movie is largely about the last decade of politics in Montana. This long-term, close-to-the-ground focus is cinematically unique, and makes it possible for \u201cDark Money\u201d to illuminate three startling facts about how America now works.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the corporate hard-right is systematically investing in politics at an incredibly granular level, down to state and local races.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, they\u2019re not just trying to crush Democrats. Leaked documents examined in the movie show conspirators discussing a plan to \u201cpurge\u201d all Republicans who don\u2019t share their worldview \u2014 an ideology so conservative that it hasn\u2019t been seen in full flower in the U.S. for 100 years. In fact, the politicians who appear in the film are largely Republicans who\u2019ve been successfully targeted for the right-wing purge, who speak wistfully about Montana\u2019s evaporating history as a small-d democracy.<\/p>\n

Third, dark money, while just one tributary of the Mississippi of cash flowing through the U.S. political system, is a key tool of the corporate right. It gets its name from the fact that certain kinds of nonprofit corporations \u2014 unlike political campaigns and even Super PACs \u2014 currently do not have to disclose their donors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: Courtesy of PBS NEW \u201cDARK MONEY\u201d DOCUMENTARY SHINES LIGHT INTO THE SHADOWS CAST BY THE SUPER-RICH IF YOU, LIKE most Americans, believe you\u2019re being screwed by the U.S. political system, and would like to know exactly how the screwing functions, tune into \u201cDark Money,\u201d a new documentary premiering Monday, October 1 on PBS. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5389,13659,22046,536,637,762,5567,827,19805],"class_list":["post-38582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-dark-money","tag-jon-schwarz","tag-kimberly-reed","tag-money","tag-politics","tag-super-rich","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states","tag-us-democracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38583,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38582\/revisions\/38583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}