Grand Orient is not the AF&AM Masons you see in your local town, those are old men playing dress up. If you want proof of this google your local masonic lodge, grand lodge, scottish rite or whatever and then cross reference the leaders of those organizations with their CV's on linkedin. They are NOT men of power and influence. Masonry in the 20th century fractured into about a dozen jurisdictions. Maybe some of them are more political, but the ones you see advertising on TV are NOT.