This is what you wrote......
Who is advocating integrating with corrupt socialist and communist governments? What is your evidence that this country has been or wants to be? Or for that matter that CFR wants that to happen?
when you typed this did you have a straight face?
You have a choice here. You can either answer the questions I posted with supporting evidence, or you can continue to drag the credibility of conspiracy theorists even lower than it already is.
Hmmmm....let me guess which option you will choose....
He also managed you use the aptly applied Sisyphus in a post earlier in the thread. Accusing him of being naive or stupid is absurd.
Disagree and offer factual support or risk having people read your posts without a straight face. The quality of the arguments against his position are laughably shallow.
What is especially funny to me personally is that the concept of "affiliation" is used so broadly. Let me give you an example.
The Rotary Club. Did you know that in my personal town, nearly every business owner, politician, musician, artist, educator and janitor is represented there? They come up with all kinds of plans for my town, they spin ideas off each other willy-nilly. I've never seen an agenda for the organization, but I have seen reports and suggestions to city government.
In the end, the CFR is the Rotary Club on steroids. Smart, talented, best in their field, and yes Patriotic, people of all stripes get together to come up with ideas. It is a think tank. The best and brightest know the best way to learn is to discuss things outside of the echo chamber. The CFR offers exactly that.
Does it affect policy? Of course. But not in a secret, hidden agenda kind of way. It affects policy the same way discussing politics with your neighbor does, or with a liberal professor, or on a FR thread.