They’re psychopaths, entirely possibly that they do some psychotic shit to maintain power
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100%.
Evil or psychotic stuff to be trusted with any power in the first place.
To take a fairly harmless example, David Cameron putting his wang in a dead pigs mouth at an elite all-boys party as a student?
That's 100 elite people later in life confident they can trust him, or else his career is sunk with a whisper.
That’s how you get power in the system - kompromat. Anyone who thinks this was just a soviet or East German thing isn’t paying attention.
There’s a reason Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself..