New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“I don’t like his persona, how he presents himself in public,” said the woman, who has lived in upper Manhattan for the last 15 years. The woman said she didn’t agree with some of Trump’s politics, which she called “outrageous.”
“He just seems very selfish and self-serving, so I don’t really appreciate that in any public servant,” she said, adding that while she doesn’t “know him as a person,” how he “portrays himself in public, it just seems to me it is not my cup of tea.”
Trump’s legal team took issue with her responses, but they were out of challenges by the time she was up for consideration.
Again I really enjoyed reading your post. The first one I replied to was beautiful and so was this one.
I don’t really subscribe to choice theory which is what I’m just going to call it. I guess if I was religious I would think of it as free will.
People need incentives to change. And they also need incentive to keep doing what they’re doing. But it takes less incentive because it takes less energy for the mind to continue in its habitual patterns.
Trump had a very strong incentive to be who he is. Those incentives were given by society. And those incentives were given by his father.
He has had very little incentive to do anything different until very recently. And as you pointed out, his tribe of sycophents and lack of real human connection, doesn’t create much of an environment where there’s incentive to change.
In other words, the pain of being him has never gotten to be big enough where there’s been reason to change. And his connection with other people and upbringing isn’t such that he experiences remorse to make him want to change.
So, I agree that compassion is important. I also think of accountability as important to society. But I don’t view accountability as something that the individual holds. Accountability is happening for Trump now. And he should be held accountable. Because without him being held accountable there is no incentive for him to change. Or for people who look up to him to change.