Of course you've never studied this
Or even read a book on it.
But you DO have an opinion.
You buy whatever the media pablum feeds you, preferring instead to believe everything they feed you including their Soup of the Day. It's people like you who are responsible for the anathema towards the underbelly of American politics Tom.
Go back to your history of Iran Contra and learn something.
As for your comment of a needed bullshit filter for Internet News, then perhaps you need to take that clothespin off your nose because that's where you get 95% of your information that you stick under OUR noses day by day.