A new record-low 11% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest single rating in Gallup’s history of asking this question since 1974. This earns Congress a 17% yearly average for 2011, the lowest annual congressional approval rating in Gallup history.

Congress Ends 2011 With Record-Low 11% Approval (via autostraddle)

Congratulations everyone, our national representative body is at institutional collapse levels of popularity.  This is supposed to be the body the represents the interests of the people of this country.  For it to be this unpopular when its job is to represent us means that either the political system is truly broken and detached from the people or we ourselves have become broken and our representatives are just a reflection of that break.

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Source: gallup.com

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