What do you think about signing petitions? Does it do any good? Or just get you on more email lists? Or other lists

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6. I assume you are talking about internet petitions?

Internet potions exist for two reasons, and two reasons only:

To collect your personal data;

To use or sell that data for dubious fund raising, little of which goes to the stated cause or candidate.

No internet petition has ever resulted in substantive change

Susan Collins (or any other politician, ever) has never taken to the senate floor and said “I was going to vote against this bill, but because of the thousands of people who signed this petition, I have been convinced to support it”.