They didn't.

> corn syrup to be universally bad

The research is still out about whether HFC is processed differently in the body. What isn't really up for debate is the pervasiveness of HFC in everything. Because it's subsidized and so cheap, it excess has made it a cheap raw material that's found in just about everything from Tomato Sauce to Bread.

Too much sugar in your diet is bad, and so it isn't much of a stretch to say that having a ridiculously cheap source of sugar that's being added as filler to every imaginable product is probably not great for us.

> and for some reason declaring that "organic" whatever that means today, makes something better somehow

I think the op was trying to say that corn is a hearty crop that grows fine on it's own without a lot of petrochemical fertilizers.

You're jumping to a lot of conclusions.