Future fat politics As the world is getting fatter, it may be inevitable that fat people will vote for their interests. What do you think will happen? I'm sure there will be more pushes to make bigger seats everywhere.  In the US, there are protected classes for workplace discrimination. The mentally ill are not even protected yet butter heifers are trying to make fatties a protected class. What makes them think their poor decisions should be protected over people who can't control that they were born with a mental illness?