Remember, that's the approval rating of Congress as a whole, including members who are of the opposite party. Individual Congresspersons enjoy a much higher and more reasonable approval rating, especially among their constituents.
Well, yeah. Bernie Sanders has a very high rating but even at 70 percent his high rating hardly budges the rest of Congress. The problem is they just don't work together. I wouldn't be heart broken if we decided to just break into smaller City states that came up with laws on their own so there were more options. Progressive states could have legalized weed and universal health. Red States could have no public safety net at all and really strong military and no regulations on corporations.
Logistically, I think the USA is just a mismanaged nightmare, the government is dysfunctional because it's too big and it could use a modernized Constitution a lot has changed since 1700s
"Bernie Sanders has a very high rating but even at 70 percent his high rating hardly budges the rest of Congress."
They don't average the approval rating of each individual Congressperson. They literally ask, "Do you approve of the job Congress is doing as a whole, yes or no?" (at least that's what they did when I was asked to take one of those opinion polls).
"I wouldn't be heart broken if we decided to just break into smaller City states that came up with laws on their own so there were more options. "
I mean, we kinda have that with States. The issue is, there are many things that transcend geographical borders. While moving between states isn't as onerous as moving countries, it isn't the easiest thing in the world to do, especially if you don't have a job lined up or money.
I just meant it'd be nicer if, we didn't have to move to Europe for a Denmark styled society, if we could just move to Vermont, Oregon, California, Hawaii, etc...
If the bulk of taxes were paid to the state, not the federal government like 80% of every tax dollar was paid to the state and state's took care of most things, and the federal government just regulated trade, maintained military, etc.. and only as far as the budget of 20% of tax would allow. States would handle their own welfare plans, education systems, etc... I think there's lots of states that could fail if everything was upto them, but some would be booming successes, just like countries in Europe, some are booming some are struggling, each is different in how they attach society's problems.
