I'm not sure what one is to do, but I'm not recommending not bothering to vote. Not at all.

The reason your electorate is making a poor turnout at the polls is, I think, because they subconsciously if not consciously realize they have been disenfranchised. Which they have. Thus apathy sets in.

That's unfortunate. When people in democracies in Latin America feel they've been disenfranchised, they take to the streets. There's a lesson there.

Americans have to be willing to fight for their rights. They were willing to in 1775. Maybe they're just not hungry enough now. Has a onetime nation of frontiersmen become a nation of sheep? Does King George now rule from Washington rather than London?