With mute one begets mutation
If you start to ignore someone or something then there's the possibility that you start off a mutation from reality. It's like what they say in the media today: there are two realities. No, there are not. There's only one reality with two mutations fighting over the middle ground. It's like in everything, if you throw off standards and rules of behavior to further your own favorite mutation then you're moving away more and more from normality.
Why should one vote in an European country for a party of extreme right or left when there's no possibility of that party even forming a government? Why should one have only the choice between two elderly men to become the next president, even with the knowledge that one team will be much better than the other? There's hardly no normality any more.
One invokes the need to stay democratic but one conveniently ignores what Ancient Athene had isn't what was really created in either the 18th or the 19th Century. That part of being representative is nowadays totally ignored. Someone after being elected needs to stay in service to all the people who didn't vote for him or her too. That means no narcissism and less party politics.
Never mute!