I don't get the Left's disdain for those who like to be physically fit. As someone who has spent half of her life fighting her weight (the other half I had just given up), this makes literally no sense to me. It shouldn't be about Left or Right when it comes to being healthy, and yet MSNBC and other Lefty rags have for whatever reason made it this evil hateful FAR-RIGHT thing. I guess since I don't want to be unhealthy, unhappy, and uncomfortable I'm somehow bad.
Even when I was really heavy this never crossed my mind. The idea that politically I should have been on the Left because I wasn't in shape ...
The far right’s obsession with fitness is going digital https://t.co/saGOFXMn64
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 10, 2023
Hate to break it to you, MSNBC, but everything is going digital.
This really isn't the story, though.
And they know that. Ultimately, it's just another opportunity for them to complain about anyone who cares enough about themselves to take care of themselves. And I'm not saying that as someone who is PERFECT, I'm far from it. But I'm happy with my weight, finally, and feel good in my clothes and in my own skin. To me, that is fit, and how I vote literally has NOTHING to do with it. When I was a size 24/26 over 20 years ago now, I was so unhappy ... and unhealthy. I hated how I looked, I avoided mirrors and anything that might be too physically challenging so I didn't embarrass myself. It was only after I'd been married for a few years that I decided I wanted to live long enough to be with my husband.
I wanted to have kids. A good life.
AGAIN, notice, nothing political here.
I started watching what I ate, wrote everything down (which digital would have been awesome to have way back then), and started exercising. That's it. I didn't somehow go from the Left to the Right, I didn't start voting any differently ... I just started taking care of myself, as we all should. We should want that for one another - not as nags because nagging doesn't help, but as friends and family members who care. My husband loved me enough to go on the 'diet' with me, to work out with me. He didn't have nearly as much to lose as I did, but he still did it, every day. He was my greatest cheerleader.
He still is.
Making fitness a divisive concept isn't helping anyone. And I get it, they're trying to push this 'the right is intolerant of imperfect people' crap because ultimately that's their bread and butter, but the reality is there are unhealthy people of all political persuasions, and how we vote has nothing to do with it.
Suppose if they want to say it's far-right to care about oneself and those around them then I'm far-right. I wonder if they realize that makes them the party of uncaring, fat, lazy slobs?
