Fat Americans do nothing but pass the buck 70.7% of Americans have an overweight BMI.  The number is even higher if you use body fat percentage instead of BMI, because BMI tends to underestimate body fat percentage in large populations.  The real percentage of overweight Americans is probably closer to 75-80%. This alone is proof of the selfishness, gluttony, sloth, greed, and laziness of the vast majority of Americans.  Naturally, you'd expect their voting habits and politicians to reflect this.  Both of the two major Presidential candidates in 2016 were fat. Greedy voters bloat up the size of government like they bloat up their waistlines. This is so that government can more efficiently forcibly provide them with resources at the expense of others.   One issue in particular is healthcare.  Given the fact that healthcare costs have become unmanageably expensive, there is now a strong push for implementing a universal healthcare system.  Universal healthcare only addresses a symptom of the problem (high costs) and not the problem itself (government intervention in the healthcare sector).  Addressing the problem itself would require getting rid of massive amounts of bad regulations, which would take decades to do without destroying the economy. This would require the public to have an extreme amount of dedication, patience, and willpower to accomplish.   But these are not qualities that fat people have.  If they did, then they would use those qualities to get in shape (and stay in shape!) They refuse to put in the necessary effort to kick their addiction to excessive calories in order to maintain a caloric deficit long enough to achieve a healthy weight.  They refuse to put in the effort to regularly exercise and eat the right amount of calories in order to stay at a healthy weight. They take the path of least resistance by getting fat, staying fat, and attempting to redefine cultural beauty standards (which doesn't work because certain beauty standards like body fat percentage are biologically driven).   Even if it did work, it wouldn't change the objective medical fact that being fat is extremely bad for you. It's no secret that being fat causes an insane amount of health problems later in life - problems that are going to require much more expensive medical care to treat.  In fact, simply being fat contributes to climate change, because it requires the excessive consumption of food and fuel.  That means more cattle putting methane into the atmosphere, more trucks to transport more food to grocery stores, and your car has to work harder (not only because you're relying on it more instead of walking or cycling, but also because being fatter puts more strain on your engine and it has to burn more fuel by working harder to transport you).  If fat people did their parts as individuals by getting in shape and staying in shape, health insurance costs would come down significantly and we would make a huge step in reducing the climate change threat.  But they will not do this, because for some reason they either do not recognize, or don't care about, the effect that they as individuals have on the overall collective system - including future generations that will have to suffer the consequences of their bad behavior. I know it sounds like I am scolding children, but that's because fat adults are basically overgrown children because they don't even know how to properly feed themselves.  Sadly, they are raising generations of children who eat and think like them, which is tantamount to child abuse.  This greedy collectivist mentality directly translates to their voting habits.  Instead of being willing to endure the necessary suffering of massively deregulating the healthcare sector in order to achieve a relatively free market healthcare system (which provides more people with higher quality care at a lower cost than even the best socialized systems), they instead choose to take the path of least resistance by passing the buck.  They vote to steal other people's money to pay for their healthcare.  In effect, universal healthcare forces healthy in-shape people to subsidize unhealthy fat people.  Fat Americans elected a greedy fat president who, for his own power and profit, denies that climate change is even happening, despite the fact that there is almost a unanimous consensus in the scientific community that it is. Even our current President's predecessor bailed out gas guzzling car companies.  Fat voters have continued to elect politicians that keep us in a perpetual state of war, which is far worse for the global climate change crisis than any other singular human activity imaginable. Delusional as they may be, fat climate change deniers are at least honest about the fact that they aren't going to do anything to stop global warming. Fat people who want to stop global warming don't want to stop it badly enough to put in the hard work and dedication to get in (and stay in) shape to do so.  They are self-loathing hypocrites. In fact, fat Americans questionably don't even see themselves as individuals.  They don't respect their own bodies enough for that. Instead, they see themselves as part of a collective whole, where if the interests of the individual conflict with the interests of the collective, the individual must be forcibly sacrificed for the good of the collective.  Collectivism has done much damage throughout history by relentlessly persecuting the individual, and we can see the results of this mentality: it achieves the exact opposite it intended.  Global warming and healthcare are getting worse, not better.  If fat people don't even care about the consequences of what they do to their own bodies, they obviously cannot be expected to care about the consequences of their actions on other individuals either. They would rather take the path of least resistance to force others (including future generations) to pay for the high costs of fixing the problems they inflicted on themselves and everyone else by being fat. Some fat Americans want to take it one step further and have the Bill of Rights amended to declare healthcare to be a human right.  The problem is, "healthcare" is not actually a thing.  It's just a word that describes a loosely-defined subset of goods and services.  It's logically inconsistent to declare that you ought to have the right to some goods and services but not others. If you think that you ought to have the right to healthcare, then I could say that I ought to have the right to a Ferrari.  That means if the people who produce Ferraris don't give me one for free, then they are violating my rights and will be prosecuted.  Declaring goods and services to be rights effectively turns the producers of those goods and services into slaves.  It is totally unsurprising that selfish, fat, lazy Americans would want to turn individuals into their own personal slaves. Shockingly, there is not a large movement in the U.S. to declare food and water to be basic human rights either.  You would think that if fat people want to force others to pay for their high healthcare costs, that of course they'd want to force other people to pay for their high food costs too. Why not?  Food and water are fundamentally more important to survival than healthcare is.  On the basis of principle, it is extremely logically inconsistent for someone who declares that healthcare ought to be a right, but not food or water.  It becomes quite clear that their reasoning is because food and water are affordable for the average American, but healthcare is not. Like horses wearing blinkers, what's out of sight is what's out of mind. Besides, all we have to do is take a look at Soviet Union breadlines to see what happens when food and water are declared a right.  But I don't expect historical facts and economic common sense to stop fat Americans from getting "free" food in the future.   But hey, at least breadlines and mass starvation will solve the fat crisis.  Darwin to the rescue.