Link Fixed
In case it does go down the memory hole, here it is:
Actually take these petitions seriously instead of just using them as an excuse to pretend you are listening
Although the ability to submit petitions directly to the White House is a noble and welcome new feature of the current administration, the first round of responses makes blatantly clear the White House intends to just support its current stances and explain them with responses everyone who has done any research already knows.
An online petition is not meant as a replacement for using a search box in a web browser. We the People, those who grant you the power to govern in the first place, are requesting changes in policy directly, circumventing legislators who already do not listen to us. We the People request you govern FOR us, which means actually listening to us and actually acting in our interests instead of special interests.
You are not above us. You ARE us. Govern accordingly.
I would but it appears that they caught wind of it. I get an error when visiting the petition now.
Fixed the link
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Generally, I like it. One sentence gave me pause. I have been railing at this government for some time for circumventing the legislators. I’ll be damned if I ask them to do it now.