Someone who doesn't even have the self control to resist a bloody junk food advertisement is unlikely to have the energy to go around political campaigning.
It's amazing how so many Americans nowadays have completely given up the idea of personal responsibility. It's been scientifically proven that willpower is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more we use it. If we encourage people to blame advertisements rather than their own poor self control, then we don't encourage people to strengthen their willpower, so it's no wonder obesity rates are higher than ever before. Your great grandparents would be laughing their asses off if they were around to hear people today suggesting it's easier to engage in the polticial process than just be more careful about what they put in their mouths.
Your first mistake is to assume I'm American.
Your second is to blame hundreds of millions of people for engaging in self-destructing behaviour, when there are businesses out there whose sole purpose is to harass them with material meant to turn them into addicts.
Time to ask yourself if there are maybe systemic reasons why half of a country is stuffing themselves to death.
It's amazing how so many Americans nowadays have completely given up the idea of personal responsibility. It's been scientifically proven that willpower is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more we use it. If we encourage people to blame advertisements rather than their own poor self control, then we don't encourage people to strengthen their willpower, so it's no wonder obesity rates are higher than ever before. Your great grandparents would be laughing their asses off if they were around to hear people today suggesting it's easier to engage in the polticial process than just be more careful about what they put in their mouths.