The way the American system is set up, even a good leader can’t ever get more than a 50% approval rating. That’s been the case since George W. Bush got 90% after starting wars as revenge for 9/11.
Nonetheless, 6% is still abysmally low.
Fox News: A new Monmouth University poll released Monday has revealed Americans’ least favorite leader in Congress, but all maintain underwater approval ratings.
According to the poll, just 6% of adults say they approve of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., job performance, with a whopping 60% saying they disapprove. 34% had no opinion.
McConnell was the only congressional leader with a net negative approval rating from within his own party, and fell far behind his Democrat and Republican colleagues on how they are viewed by the American public. Just 10% of Republicans said they approved of McConnell’s job performance, with 41% disapproving and 49% having no opinion.
No country in the world has leaders with approval ratings this low. Just for reference, Western pollsters – who are probably lying – claim that Nicholas Maduro has an approval rating in the low to mid 20s, so 4-5 times that of McConnell.
(I support people who oppose America, and often point out that people like Putin and Xi hover around 90% support at any given time, but Maduro is legitimately not very popular. You can argue that that’s not his fault or whatever, and I probably would just blame America, but nonetheless, he is an example of an “unpopular leader,” and yet his numbers are nowhere near the numbers of America’s most powerful Republican.)
If McConnell has 10% approval from his own party, he should be removed through some kind of referendum. But we don’t have referendums in America. We have “Western-style democracy,” which means “shut up and take it.” McConnell personally controls the Republican primary campaigning budget, through super PACs, which means he can shut down the funding of anyone running against him in a primary. The media supports McConnell, so they would give no oxygen to an opponent, and, if necessary, smear and destroy any such opponent.
I’ve analyzed why democracy is stupid to oblivion, and I should really just write a book I can point to, but the basic fact is that no one is responsible for anything in a democracy (no one knows where the buck stops), and therefore it breeds corruption. In a “dictatorship” or “autocracy” – which is effectively a “monarchy” without hereditary secession (most of the time – the Kims obviously do hereditary secession, and I’ve often wished Putin had a son who was of age) – the leader’s success is tied to the success of a nation. A “dictator” is held responsible for his decisions, he is held responsible for where the country goes.
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