Indeed. Without a written constitutional right to grow & eat the kind of food you want, President AOC + a simple Congressional majority could one day pass a law requiring you to eat bugs to save the planet.
Now, do I think that’s particularly likely? No.
But if that doesn’t concern you, then you’re not following your own conspiratorial thinking to its logical end. You either don’t really think progressive Democrats are as wacky as you say they are, or you don’t really think that progressive Democrats will ever amass that kind of power.
Rights are important, they protect us while the other guy is in charge.
Hot off of Dobbs, y’all are acting right now like you are a silent majority, even as y’all govern from the minority — but the fact is the “pro-life” movement is a last dying gasp of MAGA power. Very soon, thanks to demographic change, the shoe will be on the other foot.
So if you want to be a miserly strict Constitutional textualist about rights, just consider what might happen to you if your least favorite politician gained power.
Because it’s coming!