Freemasonry Conspiracy Theories, I Don't Get It

I Don't get this one.

I love a good conspiracy theory, really.  For one it makes you consider a range of possibilities you'd never imagine.  Another thing is that you get to see potential connections that you hadn't thought of before.  Finally, and importantly,  It lets you examine  the logic of  their  arguments  and look  for  holes  in their arguments.

This one I just don't get.  The founding fathers were Freemasons, many of them anyway.  But their goal was world domination abolishing churches and national borders in favor of socialism?  This idea fails in my mind on a lot of levels.

Maybe I buy into the mythology around our founding fathers a little to strongly.  I look at Washington and Franklin and Jefferson as people that should still inspire us today.  I think they "got" it in a way that it might be impossible for most of us to "get it" even today.  Washington envisioned a liberal nation that had ever expanding rights for the people.  Jefferson saw a nation of active and educated citizen farmers keeping a check on government, we should all hope for such a thing.  Franklin I could go on and on about how great he was.

They had an evil hidden agenda?  Where?

OK, here is the kicker: socialism??  Do we see an advance of socialism in the world?  That would be something we need but ain't getting.  We need less privatization, less corporate power, less concentration of wealth in the top 1 percent, not more. 

If freemasons are working towards global socialism, they are failing badly.  If they are working towards corporate fascism, they're doing a bang up job and we had better stop them.  I still don't see the connection going back to Washington or Mozart for that matter.

Can anyone "hip" me to this?

later,