It means something when it's a national health problem. It's the major health problem in the U.S. today, with about 2/3 of the adults in the U.S. being overweight or obese. 1/3 of adults are clinically obese. Everything from heart disease, diabetes, cancer to other metabolic disorders arises from obesity lifestyles.

People like Bernie Sanders take donations from agribusiness and processed food makers, and pretend it's a character issue, while ignoring abuses of the marketplace, false advertising, junk food masquerading as whole food and regulatory abuses in the FDA/USDA.

It's exactly that blinkered mentality that you post, that implies that noticing obesity is socially unjust or prejudiced, that puts a public health problem falsely under the umbrella of social justice warfare, that enables agribusiness to continue to abuse consumers and markets. That and crony capitalism in Congress.

If Hillary's husband was a corrupt banker and Clinton took a lot of money from finance, it would be an issue because it implies she's in that culture and doesn't see the problem. If Bernie's wife is obese and he takes major money from agribusiness, it implies he's not going to address this major public health issue because his family is in that culture and doesn't see the problem.

from the CDC: * More than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese. [Read abstract Journal of American Medicine (JAMA)]
* Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death.
* The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars; the medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight.

It has far greater impact on poor/minority populations than banker bonuess

• Among non-Hispanic black and Mexican-American men, those with higher incomes are more likely to have obesity than those with low income.
• Higher income women are less likely to have obesity than low-income women.
• There is no significant relationship between obesity and education among men. Among women, however, there is a trend—those with college degrees are less likely to have obesity compared with less educated women. ___________

The public health issue of obesity and lifestyle disease and reining in agribusiness and processed food manufacturer's abuses of the consumer and marketplace are actually far bigger, more impactful issues than your greedy banker ones. It impacts hundreds of millions of lives directly.

The Obama administration was supposed to address this. It didn't, at all. because the banking stuff took center stage with the mortgage crisis.