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I still don’t get the purpose? To get to know each other well? Why does the club need to be secret to do that? [/quote]

These are like mini Masonic lodges. Many of the people in them might be liberal or progressive Democratic, but they’re based on aristocratic principles and simply aren’t democratic at all.

These groups are supposed to be made of people who can trust each other’s with their lives, raise money for the college or charity, run the government, and fight bad guys.

When good guys belong, maybe they sometimes do important, wonderful things.

When bad people belong to them, they no doubt do and cover up all sorts of terrible things.[/quote]

See the movie The Good Shepherd with Matt Damon. Yale,[b] Skull and Bones[/b], William Donovan, the  creation of the CIA. George HW Bush is an example of this background. [/quote]

But S&B is not secret.  It does not hide its members' identities.  The purpose of the group is networking and socializing, not anonymous philanthropy like the ones at UVA.[/quote]

Okay, but my point was to agree with the poster I quoted who noted that they’re based on aristocratic principles, run the government, fight bad guys. It’s beyond networking as it’s like selection and preparation for a life of elite power. It’s well known that S and B was the pipeline to the CIA in its early days. 
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