Why are so many Americans unable to tell the difference between right-wing and left-wing?

[smkeller]

By God, that's a mouthful.

'Will social media ever be able to inform enough Americans to counter the influence of mass media propaganda from the moneyed elitists'?

This is really what you are asking, no?

I give you credit for charging into the thicket of influences that seem to rule the American public, but why do you imagine that instead of the 6,8 or 20 sources of information - and I use the term loosely - that we now have, thousands would be better?

The problem is not so much the sources but the inability of people to discriminate 'fact' from 'fiction', the 'likely' from the 'ridiculous', the 'fair and balanced' from the obvious 'sell-job.'

So, I think that you may have shaken YOURSELF loose from at least some of these influences, but you have NOT provided a viable alternative to what we have now.