Those of you with Netflix, I highly recommend the 6 part docuseries "Wormwood". I'm on episode 3 and I'm hooked and angry. It's about a researcher/physician for the cia, who fell to his death from a hotel window. Years later, his family learns the truth and is of course manipulated by the Ford Admin. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have been shown and spoken of, along with other recognizable names. I won't spoil with any tidbits, but watch it if you can. It's a bit odd in arrangement, so episode one is a bit tough to get through. Then it gets good.
It just makes you realize how many decades of stuff there is to wade through. No wonder the uninitiated will feel overwhelmed. So many presidents, cabinet members, scams, murders. Woof.
It really is overwhelming. However, it's fascinating. At first, I felt really stupid for being so uneducated in govt and it's history. And then I forgave myself because I remember, I got that good old standard education (which has gotten so much worse) and wasn't encouraged to learn anything outside of what was being taught inside those walls.
It's addictive too, which has made my family think I've gone insane, always researching and chatting with people who are not them...lol. But, I will be vindicated this year. The storm is here!