When an typically grassroots political party or movement gets killed off because the pseudo-democratic powers at be don't like it as it interferes with their agenda. In doing so the illusion of democracy is thought to be maintained as it doesn't appear too blatant and the movement ends up disappearing leaving people with no alternative by the time an election comes. Thus the cycle never ends yet the governmentwill claim democracy works and gives everybody a choice.
Usual methods of roadblocking include but are not limited to: getting hijacked or bribed, not given any media time , paid or being classed as a terrorist organization.
Guy 1: Since when is the EDL a terrorist organization?
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.