One such person would be a man who was called Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a pastor (which is something I don't understand, as I don't do religion), but he was also executed by the Nazis in the Flossenburg camp in 1945.
There's a lot of quotations of his that are floating about the internet. Yet just because he was a "man of faith", it doesn't follow that my atheism should ignore him or his quotations - ok, some of his quotations. Those that don't allude in some way to religion (incidental to this view, I might not believe myself, but I'm happy for others to have a belief as long as they don't use it to cause me to have to live in a way that I don't agree with).
So, someone recently posted one of his quotations on facebook, it came from his "Letters and Papers from Prison".
The person who quoted it, was using it as an example to illuminate some of the rather strange political attitudes in the US at the moment.
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 when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental
While it makes sense in highlighting why some may have thought electing someone like their "President elect", any fair minded person could also see why we also have ended up in a very muddled political situation here and that same quote could be applied to those who wanted to leave the EU.
