Spoiler, they won't. Most treat politics as a sports team. Elections are all about their team winning. And if they guy they elected is terrible, they convince themselves that the other guy was worse,
The best you can hope for is them giving up on voting for a cycle or two. Then they're right back in it, voting for team colors regardless of real world consequences.
The oddballs who actually care are the ones you hear from most, the assholes who like the cruelty.
Banana Republics come to mind. But during the time frame the US was doing that, Most of Europe was still doing their own colonialisms.
It was only when Hitler brought colonialism back to Europe that they started to wake up to how bad it was. Well, some of them. France and England had to start losing colonial wars, mostly due to losses suffered in due to WW2, before they slowly started freeing colonies.
Just shows that everyone is shit, and cheering for a team is kind of stupid.