I did a quick google search.
agree some of the freemason symbols are on the currency. the freemasons were a secretive civics organization that promoted civics and charity and such values as liberty and fraternity.
I googled as to who the last presidents were who were also freemasons. google said gerald ford and lyndon johnson. Gerald ford left office in 1980. That was over 40 years ago. there have been no presidents who were freemasons since.
Neither bush the elder or bush the younger were freemasons—and they came from the the original wasp culture that produced freemasons. So that tells you something.
The decline of the influence of the freemasons goes along with the decline of all civics organizations in the USA. People just don’t join them anymore.
But this is also true of various traditional catholic and jewish civics organizations that helped the poor and needy. Its across the board. For that matter this goes along with the decline of most traditional religions in the usa—both catholic and prostest especially the liberal protestant denominations—to which the bushes belonged.
Trump never paid much attention in church. But he has shifted from the liberal protestant church he attended in NYC to an evangelical church in Florida.
Well, you are right about the current state of civic organizations.
BUt the freemasons are OLD. The go back hundreds of years. And before tats the there were The Templars.
FReemasons do not have to disclose that they are freemasons. Many people are but they keep it secret.
Once you see the array of freemasonry symbols around Washington DC, you will understand their influence.
Grand Lodge of DC:
https://www.dcgrandlodge.org/history-of-dc-freemasonry.html
Their values are enshrined in the Constitution.
Some say that without the Freemasons, we would never have benn able to unify as a nation in the beginning.