57% of Republican voters, 46% of Democrat voters, and 58% of independent voters believe a randomly selected group of people from a phone book would do a better job at handling the US’s problems than the present Congress.

Of the voters who believe the average elected official in Congress listens mostly to party leaders, 59% indicated that a randomly selected group of people could do a better job than Congress in the present year.

71% of white voters,  55% of black voters, 62% of Hispanic voters, and 62% of other non-white minorities believe the average elected official in Congress primarily listens to party leaders.

When it comes to income categories, voters making between $30,000 and $50,000 annually are mostly likely to believe that a randomly selected group of people from a phone book would do a better job of tackling the nation’s many problems than the current Congress.

Indeed, DC is beyond corrupt and out of touch with the interests of Middle America. At this point, Joe Blow from the street would actually do a better job representing the country than the average politician. This political class behaves like an alien occupation entity and it should be the main priority of the right to delegitimize it at  every step of the way.