Bring Back Democracy to America

A great blight of our democracy today is that most congressional and state legislative elections are noncompetitive. Thanks to sophisticated computer technology, politicians can now draw district lines that virtually guarantee the reelection of incumbents or preserve seats for particular parties. The districts often resemble a Jackson Pollock painting or a bowl of spaghetti thrown on the wall. Towns are carved up into numerous pieces. Houses in the same neighborhood can find themselves with different legislative representatives. Most of these races today have all the suspenseof those in the former Soviet Union.