In actual fact (look it up) legislators in the Soviet Union were thrown out far more often than members of the House of Representatives in the United States. At this point, with the partisan drawing of district lines and the huge money advantage of incumbents, it is essentially impossible to remove a sitting member of congress. In the Soviet Union the voting rules provided that someone who failed to receive 50% of the vote in a yes/no vote would be removed and replaced by someone else. This happened to some members of the Supreme Soviet in every election.

Please understand that I am not arguing that Soviet elections were models of democracy. I am merely pointing out that US elections are not nearly as democratic as official propaganda claims.

The only way to have truly democratic legislative elections in the United States is to take the money out of the process, provide equal time in the media to candidates of all parties, and go to proportional representation (in which seats are distributed in multi-seat districts to parties or lists according to their percentage of the vote). In this way, instead of having a large minority of the people in each district essentially unrepresented, every point of view with any real support would be represented in legislative bodies. Most more-or-less democratic countries do it this way, and for good reason. But the folks who make the rules in the USA represent money, not people. They consider democracy a threat to themselves - and for good reason! -Kevin Akin