This is something very special that gets dragged through the mud by young nihilist pessimists who think that their voices will never be heard, so instead they sit back, get high, and watch the ship go down convinced that they couldn't do anything about it.
I really hope that all the people flaming and chiding their country and political system are exercising their right to VOTE. Because if they aren't then they should be put to sleep so I don't have to listen to them complain.
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)