Tyrants are always bipartisan because the desire for control is not related to the mirco-ideologies that separate people by political parties. Control freaks are driven by their personality, character, will, and preferences. Political parties are merely outputs for exercising that control. This is from the Wall Street Journal:

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, restaurant chains and consumer advocates reached an agreement on legislation that would require calorie information on restaurant menus or display tags at salad bars and buffet tables.

…The measure “will not only help consumers to make informed decisions about their health when eating out, but is a critical part of a broader reorientation to a society of prevention and health promotion,” Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) said Wednesday in announcing the agreement.

Forget the fact that people are not educated on the nutritional information that will be presented to them. In addition, most of them could care less about what they are putting into their bodies because the majority of overweight Americans keep on doing exactly what it is that makes them more and more overweight each year. They see that particular actions/choices lead to particular results, and in spite of the very apparent issues, they continue down the same path. They place a high value on the short-term satiation they get from garbage food, and thus any long-term, negative effects that may result from their lazy habits fall far down in their pecking order of things to worry about.

And by the way, the age-old myth that weight and body fat are the result of a ‘calories in, caolries out’ equation is one of the most destructive myths ever drilled into the minds of the masses. Note the photo on the cover of the Gary Taubes book, Good Calories, Bad Calories. Immediately, it puts forward a point about this very myth. There is a piece of bread with a pat of butter. Guess which of the two foods has the good calories and which food has the bad calories? Butter good, bread bad – something the uneducated masses, who will be force-fed nutritional menus they can’t understand, would never know. The Taubes book – which is brilliant and groundbreaking – is based on his scientific investigation of 100+ years of nutritional science research. His thesis is that calories are not a quantitative issue but a qualitative one.

But constantly, the lies and myths are perpetuated upon the masses who don’t know any better. Years and years of government spending, propaganda, and misleading information have led to a society where individuals keep getting fatter and less healthy. It’s like the public education system – all the government’s legislation, money, and additional “education” have had the effect of further destroying that which it purports to fix because, still, the myths, lies, misinformation, and political-big business alliances continue to run amok, rendering all of the attempted “fixes” completely impotent.