As a voter, I am already in a minority. The public is largely apathetic. The reasons for this are many, but some are: First, that the voter is largely disenfra

As a voter, I am already in a minority. The public is largely apathetic. The reasons for this are many, but some are: First, that the voter is largely disenfranchised. He is presented with two options and repeatedly told that a vote for any other option is throwing his vote away. Because other voters largely heed this advice the evidence shows that it is correct, even though in other voting systems that would definitely not be the case. Second, even where the voter succeeds in getting his candidate elected, that candidate seldom fulfills the promises made. Or if those promises are fulfilled it is because they are largely unimportant in the grand scheme of things or are comprimised into oblivion. Meanwhile technical and often highly obfuscated decisions and laws are made behind the scenes and would have been made regardless of which of the two candidates was elected for office. Third, many extremely important decisions are made by fiat. That the decision-making body is ultimately elected is largely meaningless. The elected are beholden to special interests (often corporate) and repay those interests by appointing particular people to those decision-making bodies. The voter is often many-times-removed from some of the most important decisions being made and there are little to no consequences for going against the wishes of the voter in those cases. Fourth, an individual vote is statistically insignificant. The value I have gotten from individually voting is far outweighed by even the price of gasoline I've spent getting to a polling location. This is even more true if you tend to be a minority voter. So even if, by vote, it is 75/25 against (which will be fought against by both parties and the media), it won't stop immediately, because the population is largely apathetic as they've been told to be by a system that works against them.