he 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.
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’s not his fault or whatever, and I probably would just blame America, but nonetheless, he is an example of “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 the same thing as we used to call “monarchy,” simply 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.
There is no dictator with a 6% approval rating. Maduro has the lowest approval of any dictator, and yet, more than 50% of the people would prefer him to any alternative. His government is also constantly on the brink of collapse (though he seems to be taking some initiative now). Regardless, you can look at the data and find that Maduro is at worst the exception that proves the rule.
The question is: is the American system viable long-term? Is it possible to have a government this oppressive, where the people have zero say in how things are done, and are simply called terrorists and harassed by the security services if they don’t agree?
History shows that after times get hard, people will tolerate tyranny for about a decade. It’s hard to say if we are really in “hard times,” however. People are struggling financially, they all hate this bizarre homosexual agenda for kids, they are tired of all these endless wars, perhaps most of all, they are exhausted by the endless flow of immigrants. Still: everyone is comfortable materially, and probably always will be, because we are in a new place in history where material wealth is very cheap.
Right now, the government is attempting to take a step back on some of this stuff. They are walking back immigration, they are saying they’re going to be less aggressive with forcing homosexuality and genital mutilation onto little kids. So, they are aware that things are on the verge of spinning out of control.
Can they control it? My thinking is probably yes. I can’t see any point at which Americans, fat and lazy as they are, would ever push back on this government in any serious way. The government is saying “shut up and take it” and Americans are saying “okay.”
It’s my view that the end of this system must come from external pressures being applied by Russia, China, and the Moslems.
The good news is: the external pressure is here.
I support the enemies of the American Anal Empire because I have determined that it is simply a fact that for the people to rise, the Empire must fall. There is no other way out of this endless nightmare that is “The American Experiment.”
I never wanted to be a part of an experiment. I was born in America, which is my home. I was not asked if I wanted my life to be in experiment in multiculturalism and child homosexuality. I want to have a nation, to have a home where I live with the people I care about, and I don’t care about ideological systems.
I would prefer to be ruled by the Chinese, the Russians, the Taliban, North Korea, Cuban communists, Mexican drug lords, or really any other powerful entity on earth. None of those groups fly the anal flag, none of them flood their people with immigrants. All of them show some kind of concern for the people they rule, and respond to public sentiment.
The American system is the worst system that has ever existed in all of human history, and it will not last forever.