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I thought I remembered a 32% at some point.
Not that it really matters.
RT:
US President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to a historic low as he announced that he would run for re-election, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday. Just 37% said they approve of the way Biden has handled the job – the lowest number reported by Gallup since his inauguration in 2021.
“Biden’s job approval has been in the low 40% range for most of the past 19 months, apart from the current reading and a 38% score last July,” Gallup said. “Only Ronald Reagan in early 1983 had a lower ninth-quarter average among elected post-World War II presidents.”
The poll was conducted from April 3-25 and completed the day Biden formally launched his re-election campaign. On Tuesday, the president’s team released their first video ad, with the slogan “Let’s finish the job.”
Biden’s most pressing challenges include the slowdown of economic growth, high inflation, and the energy crisis. According to Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index, 16% of Americans rate the economy as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’, 37% as ‘fair’, and 47% as ‘poor’, while 75% said the economy is getting worse.
It’s interesting that democracy systems do not make the claim to represent the popular will, but instead are straightforward about support for minority rule. I don’t think this was always the case.
But “dictator” countries or whatever you want to call them – to me, anything that isn’t democracy or old school communism (North Korea) is just a “normal country” – always maintain serious majority approval.
Of these countries I call “normal countries,” Putin struggles the most, and that is very clearly due to the ethnic diversity in Russia, and the way that this was handled or mishandled in the years immediately following the collapse of the USSR (not really Putin’s responsibility).
And that’s a situation where, according to Western sources, Putin has never touched 60%.
For the last 30 years – again, just using a basket of Western sources (which are presumably low balling pretty good) – Putin has averaged in the high 70s or low 80s, which is more or less exactly what you would expect looking at the ethnic map.
There’s not a 0% rating among the ethnic minorities, and there’s not a 100% rating among ethnic Russians, but still, most of the reason Putin doesn’t sit at 95ish% is due to the ethnic situation. There is a discontent among Russians that feel like minorities are getting too much. He’s been very balanced, in my opinion. He could get 97% among white Russians by just telling the minorities they get nothing at all, but you’re risking civil war at that point, and maintaining peace in the Southern (Islamic) territories has been a cornerstone of Putin’s rule.
In Dagestan, you might get a low approval, but they’re not rising up, and they’re (rarely) resorting to terrorism. On top of that, you’ve got the economic reality that Putin is literally rebuilding from the ashes of a collapsed empire and the influence of Western operations. Those two things, I think, tie into the ethnic problems. It’s a lot easier to have multi-ethnic harmony when the money is good.
Again, I’m using Putin as the example because he has the lowest approval of any “dictator strongman autocracy regime” leader. And of course, he’s been hitting the 90s since NATO declared war on Russia.
If you wanted to take the opposite end of the “normal country leader” approval scale, Xi Jinping has effectively a 100% approval rating from the Chinese people. You’ve got Western influence operations, you’ve got a small amount of ethnic strife, so you could call it 98%, but I wouldn’t think you could put it at lower than that.
I don’t think that democracy believers – particularly Americans – are really capable of understanding how nonsensical this concept of partisanism actually is. It is so clearly designed to purposefully keep the population in a state of conflict with itself so that the government can behave with zero accountability. In real life, there is no reason that people who live in a society together should have different basic goals for the society. It is a wild concept. And what is especially wild is the willingness of the population to go along with it, due to the emotional triggers.
Of course, at this point, partisanism is real. You do have Democrats supporting things that are insane. But this is more of like, a satanic takeover than anything political.
The norm for a society is that people agree on the basic goals of the society, and the disagreement stems exclusively from choosing the best path to implement these goals. Therefore, the approval rating of a leader is exclusively based on competence.
In America, Joe Biden is going to start at 50% at best because half the population is against him because he wants to chop up kids’ genitals and flood us with immigrants. But then, a 37% approval rating doesn’t mean he has a 74% competence rating from Democrats, because the main reason people support Joe Biden is that he’s not Donald Trump.
I wish that people would stop trying to convince Democrats of things. That’s my biggest wish, politically. No one is going to be convinced of anything, and the fact that the entire conservative media is based around the theory that if you just form the perfect argument, you’re going to convince the Democrats they are wrong is so stupid it boggles the mind.
But honestly, there is so much going on that is so dumb it is beyond comprehension, that it really feels hopeless to comment on politics for any other reason than documenting the reality situation.
