&gt; And then we have the Congress in US with an approval rating in the teens and a re-election rate in the 90s [0].<p>Far be it from me to defend the United States Congress, but the two things--a low approval rating combined with a high reelection rate--are often presented as evidence for corruption.<p>Corrupt though they may be, it&#x27;s a faulty measure--the approval rating is for all of Congress. Most Americans by default hate half of congress--the half in the opposing party--and disapprove of many of their own members.<p>Put another way, the approval rating has Bostonians evaluating congressmen from Houston, but most people end up reelecting their own congressman. &quot;The problem isn&#x27;t my congresswoman, it&#x27;s the other idiots,&quot; etc.<p>There are other, unfortunate reasons for that, but that&#x27;s a separate point.