Either you are being naive or you are puroposefully misunderstanding or simplifying the issue. 1. It doesn't matter if there are "more important things to do".

Either you are being naive or you are puroposefully misunderstanding or simplifying the issue. 1. It doesn't matter if there are "more important things to do". If it did, Silicon Valley wouldn't exist, and poverty wouldn't exist. 2. If the Whitehouse invents a petition system to allow people to show what is important to them, people expect the Whitehouse to react and do something about those things.