Okay, I see where you're coming from now. The trouble is, you're not the intended recipient of the petition - the government is. The only reason democracy works is because the voters have the power to change the government if they don't like it.
Non-voters don't have the power to change the government, hence they don't need to take such an active interest in them. Governments say they do, for a couple of reasons:
They don't want to piss off regular voters
Young people will eventually become voters anyway.
Forgive me for being cynical. If we weren't cynical, we wouldn't have a democracy at all, we'd have some other system of government where we trusted them to do the right thing for us. Communism? Socialism? *shrug*.
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Date: 2007-03-27 02:59 pm (UTC)Non-voters don't have the power to change the government, hence they don't need to take such an active interest in them. Governments say they do, for a couple of reasons:
- They don't want to piss off regular voters
- Young people will eventually become voters anyway.
Forgive me for being cynical. If we weren't cynical, we wouldn't have a democracy at all, we'd have some other system of government where we trusted them to do the right thing for us. Communism? Socialism? *shrug*.