Right. As I said, your own eyes can prove you wrong, yet instead you believe whatever is written about the group on any site that says something negative.
I will once again promote the idea, go and meet freemasons, talk to them, they don't hide their buildings are clearly marked and times they meet will be on signs. Watch who goes to the meetings and see that your "powerful men" ideation is ridiculous, find what they have to say. See if they are bad men.
The attempt to suggest that a whole organization is corrupt and powerful is debunked by the very membership you will meet. They aren't powerful, they aren't any more politically connected than any other person in society, they don't have any "choice" as to who gains ascendancy.
What I promote is that you actually learn from those you meet rather than just say, "well the ones that are eeeeVIIIlllllll are ones that you don't know".
Any large group of people will have some that become famous, some that become infamous, some that are just people, but not because they are part of that group. It is because it is a group of people. We can select any group of people and find that some of them are politically powerful, some of them were criminals, some of them are just blue-collar workers... To suggest that just because some of a group are in politics it makes the entire group "powerful" is plain ridiculous.