True about the red states. But 'fat acceptance' is clearly a progressive ideology. It utilizes all the same buzzwords, critical theory, marxist and oppression olympics bullshit. And it is getting harder and harder to find liberals who have enough backbone to stand up to the blatant lies HAES and FA promote. They are so scared of being labeled as the dreaded 'right wing' or 'conservative' by their peers they would rather ignore fat acceptance and hope it goes away.  Hopefully, more liberals will speak out against fat acceptance. I am not going to lie I have seen a few try and that is encouraging. But it only started to happen after the FA ideology got a firm foothold in progressive society (too little, too late).  As the country gets more and more polarized I find that neither party is truly interested in helping me. On the right I have bible thumpers, climate change deniers, crony capitalism, and science deniers. On the left I have fat acceptance / HAES, race baiting, white bashing, male bashing, science denial, and crony capitalism.  I think I am just going to have to keep switching my votes each election to minimize the damage each side is causing.