This is a pretty tough road to get to 'Democracy'

So I have a general issue that I want to contact my representatives about and it is NOT easy.  I want to contact both my national senators, as well as the relevant federal representatives.  My issue is county wide and of a federal nature given the program (more posts to come on this one).  My county spans three congressional districts, hence three relevant congress persons.  Then I need to add in my State senators (of which the county has two), and then the local and county representatives.  No big deal right?  Just get all their email address and send out one email no?  NO.  The national and statewide reps have fill in forms to send emails through (seven).  Meaning fill in all my personal details for each one, then my issue, etc.  This is really time consuming.  The local ones though offer regular email addresses, this is of course makes it much easier to contact all of them - well done.

But how much of a difference can the local ones make?  Actually, I decent amount when it comes to what I'm looking to do.  But given my issue, while local government can change some of the implementation, my query is bigger than just smiles.  Thus I want to send a letter to ALL the relevant representatives, on all levels.  How much time should I have to spend to be able to try to be democratic, to take my part in "rule by the people"?  If the process is made to be so difficult as to limit its usage, how does one expect to get true governmental feedback?  Or maybe they don't?  After all, if there was more feedback our representatives would have to hire more interns to weed through the messages, and have more representative issues on their plate.  Less feedback, less concerns, equals more 'efficient' government right?