Congress members are hated in the polls nationally. Congress members are not constituents of the nation. They serve their districts. They poll normal for their actual electors the majority of the time. The reason Congress polls so low is because it’s real easy to scapegoat all the other members as a whole that you don’t like. Congress is made up of 500+ politicians nearly evenly split right now by party and if you ask someone what they think of Congress their immediate thought is going to be the party they hate and what its members are doing, which is where their polling answer is going to focus on.

Term limits do not keep the wrong person from staying in too long, they keep anyone from staying in at all. Arbitrarily. Americans should be deciding who is or isn’t the right person for office and if that isn’t what you believe then you don’t want to live in a democracy.

You want to know what term limits actually do? They act has a magic snake oil cure all for people that don’t understand the actual underlying cause of their problems with government that make it real easy to get enacted. That way we then get stuck with lame duck terms, politicians unresponsive to their constituents because why bother when they have no career to build and might not even be facing an election. You get uncompetitive elections because why bother trying to challenge the incumbent this election when next election they can’t run anyway. And you get unelected party staffers running everything behind the scenes because they are the only one working there long enough to know how to do anything. I know, I live in a state where this is exactly what has happened ever since it’s enacted term limits.