>>513550814
Elite participation in horrific stuff is mutual security, not magic. It ensures everyone in the room is willing to do literally anything for power, no pretenders are going to rape a kidnapped baby to death on a Satanic altar in order to become a senator or something. Also it is extremely unlikely that anyone who's on tape raping a baby to death is going to betray the other baby rapers.
That's it. They're just filtering non-sociopaths and binding themselves together through mutually assured destruction, which is the best way to get cooperation among sociopaths