labor disintegrating, page-38

banjar, atomou, I still don't understand why you don't expect that kind of thinking from me.

Apathy is one thing, banjar, disenfranchisement is another, a totally different thing.
If I understand it right, your view is that certain –dubiously selected- people should be excluded from voting. These people, then, will have no political voice whatsoever. Prisoners, people in remote communities, and many others don’t right now.
“Lobbying” their local member will have no effect whatsoever and, if your suggestion will actually be applied, in a very short time, a law would be enacted whereby they will not even be allowed to enter the offices of that local member. They will mean nothing to him or her. They are not allowed a vote, so why should they be listened to by anyone?

If there is a heart in Democracy it is its premise of inclusion not exclusion.
Should we go back to the days when only land lords, males, white anglo-celt Catholics be allowed to vote? Should we exclude the women, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, the retired? Those born overseas, perhaps? The public servants? The indigenous? Whom, exactly do you want to exclude from your "democratic" world?

Me? I’d include everyone and some more. I’d drop the age of enfranchisement to begin with, to include, say, the 14 year olds. Allow even the worst crims to vote, make certain that no Australian citizen who is alive is excluded. I would want to hear everyone’s voice and make sure that the person behind that voice is adequately educated and informed.
Neither part of the word Democracy means anything if members of a society (the Demos) are arbitrarily excluded. The “Cracy” part (meaning “power”) of the word will be weakened, diluted, polluted, corrupted. It will no longer be called "Democracy." Could it better be described as Plutocracy? Meritocracy? Monarcy? Anarchy? Junta? Theocracy?
To be a member of a Democracy is to have the power, the confidence in humanity to include every neighbour –close and distant- in your country in the process of the selection of your representatives in a Parliament where debates about every aspect of life in your country (and the rest of the world) take place.
The word denotes that political power rests in the hands of the people. Not some of the people but all of the people.
Let the politicians be accountable to all of us, not some of us.