"they deserve the respect to be listened to at the very least."
they have been listened to. They have also been pandered to as well but, in a lot of cases, to no avail. It should be a two way street.
Reminds me of the story where a daughter rang her father to tell him there was a mad man driving the wrong way along a highway that she knew he would be on . His reply "there is not one., there are dozens of them. I've been dodging them all day."
