People have a hard time taking responsibility for their actions – especially when they know that their actions are wrong. That’s because, if our deed is found out, it usually means we have to pay a penalty... sometimes a steep penalty. It may be a monetary penalty (fines, job loss, reprimand), a social penalty (loss of social standing, or rejection), family penalty (divorce, disownment), and such. To avoid this “punishment”, people will do some rather strange things. They’ll try to place the blame for their actions on someone else (they made me do it). They’ll lie and say it never happened (but lies breed lies. One must tell another lie to keep the first lie from being exposed as a lie (and soon)). They’ll bribe others who know about the deed hoping they won’t go and tell anyone else (sometimes paying out exorbitant amounts of money).
Whenever someone has to bribe someone else to keep quiet about something, they know full well that they’ve done something they shouldn’t have. There’s no reason to bribe someone to keep quiet about the truth (unless, again, they’re trying to do wrong). Every person on the planet knows that if someone does something wrong that person should be punished (one way or another). We call it justice. Yet we all still try to hide our “crimes”. Sometimes we’ll do things far worse or costly to try to hide our misdeed than we’d have to pay in a penalty for that misdeed.
If people would take responsibility for their actions and speak the truth, they might find that they have fewer problems than if they tried to hide the truth. Most of our actions will eventually come to the light anyway. Why do we want to complicate things further?
Trump (and people like him) are just plain selfish. They think that their "desires" should be fulfilled whenever they want with no care about anyone else. (sarcasm alert -->) Is your woman laid up because she just had your child and you’re feeling horny? No problem, just grab a hooker and get your jollies; after all that’s your right as a man. (<-- sarcasm alert). That kind of attitude makes me so mad. To me, that’s the most sickening, selfish, unloving, assaholic thing a man could do to his wife. (I'll refrain from saying what should be done to a person who does that.) It’s treating her like property, not as another human being. And don’t even get me started on affairs.
These "mini-doofuses" have been around forever. They lurk in the shadows until one of "their kind" comes to power. No, they're not born that way. Selfishness doesn't take any work - it comes naturally. So when other people see that these “cool sounding” kind of things are tolerated (condoned?) and the perpetrator “gets away with them”, they want to do it as well. Suddenly there’re only 3 people in the world – Me, Myself and I… and they come first! Sadly, our society promotes this kind of selfishness (self-serving) behavior. It’s becoming the “norm”.
Shuhak 