Seems we had a similar experience. Working on my econ degree, took a summer class in college right around the same time (2000) with a visiting professor. He started going on about how the Clintons stole the social security money, etc. He made us read books by Ron Chernow on the history of our banking system, the tycoons and the money trusts that were supposedly broken up by Roosevelt.

Later went back and got a degree in banking, started connecting dots, figured out that these old money trusts (bank networks & families) were still controlling our country through the Federal Reserve system + foundations/tax-exempt orgs.