It *is* used for serious petitions, too. Problem is, normal people don't care enough to go place their signatures on it. This country is ruled by apathy and conformity.

I think that our collective problems are not due to the fact that we are too childish, but that we are too grown up. Grown ups, I have found, get really stuck in their ways, very opportunistic and greedy, they know it all, it's hard to change their minds because they have nothing to learn, they know what is best for…

Remember the good old days when "lobbying" was properly known as "bribery" and regarded as a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison-worthy felony?

Me neither. But my grandmother seems to.

To answer your last question, yes.