Progressive Politics

My hypothetical comment was about your saying "who’s to say that the kakistocratic governments of the five states didn’t also ban nutritionally valid foods that they disapprove of for conspiracy theory and/or policy reasons?"

Food deserts exist, of course they do, but the garbage I'm in favor of exempting from SNAP isn't a replacement for food, either. If you told me you were in the desert and dying of dehydration, me bringing you a Pilot Precise V5 RT Rolling Ball pen wouldn't quench your thirst, would it?

there’s no proof that those are the only ones banned.

Semantics. Maybe not the only things banned, but banned nonetheless. That's worth celebrating.

Show me ONE single real location where the ONLY option is between a pack of Hostess cakes and death. Just one. The human body cannot survive indefinitely on Fudge Rounds and Dr. Pepper, these people are getting nutrition from somewhere. Identify it, isolate it, encourage it, and remove addicting, big-money distractions.

Moreso, the way to combat food deserts is to stop encouraging them by telling junk snack dealers they can make infinite money selling Twinkies to the government on repeat. Even better, redistribute SNAP's Twinkie fund to subsidize grocers in the food deserts.