Shove it!

If only the voters could commit to the sentiment and tell all of our 'leaders' to "Shove it, really."

At the risk of abusing metaphor ad nauseam, I will say that voting is a way to rock the Boat (government). All of the Passengers in that Boat (politicians, regardless of party or office) are out for the same end: Keep the Boat from sinking! They will do whatever they have to to keep afloat, including throwing each other overboard and plucking different Passengers from the water who will better fit the goal of keeping the Boat afloat.

Every so often, the Boat is beset by Waves (votes/voters) that set the Boat to rolling. Problem is that the Waves are normally too small or of too short a duration to really affect change in the Boat. Sometimes, the Waves actively work in different directions and serve to negate each others' force. The passengers all pull together to right a ship that also has an inherent tendency to right itself. The Waves pass, the Boat is right.

What needs to happen is a long strong succession of ever-increasing Waves that serve to capsize the Boat and set all of the Passengers adrift among the Waves...