Radioactivity Listeners respond to Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech in Cincinnati

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Trump rally in Ottumwa Iowa on 1/9/2016. Photo By Evan Guest via flickr

BY Rob Lorei

On Radioactivity Friday we listened to 20 minutes of a speech that President-elect Donald Trump gave to a crowd in Cincinnati, the first stop in his “Thank You” tour around the states. In the speech, Trump blasted the mainstream media who doubted his potential to win and promised to reinvigorate the American economy. We then opened up the phone-line for listener comments.

One Response to “Radioactivity Listeners respond to Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech in Cincinnati”

  1. Rick Senior

    I wish these words were mine but they are not.

    They are the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison.

    Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and hen facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, it utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again ill we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945)
    “On Stupidity” – Letters and Papers from Prison

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