Quote - "I and probably a lot of others will vote for the winner."

But everyone will vote for different candidates, and no single one will get a mandate to govern so to speak :-) Its kind of like getting a third party in the U.S. Everyone complains about the status quo but you can't get enough people to agree on an alternative to  make it viable.

That's the problem with not having a really free press. The corporate state controls the media and has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

(Oh, that's not anti-American by the way, the problem is widespread.)