A cynical statement used to point out that no matter how stupid someone is, they can still decide the fate of a country.
There are people who actually think that an almost eighty-year-old man who can't even walk up a flight of stairs without tripping or stumbling at least three times and can't go more than five minutes without uttering a non-sequitur or having a random emotional outburst and has a long, documented history of being extremely racially prejudiced whenever it's convenient to him is fit to run an entire country. And these people can vote.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.