DISQUS

Ryan Radia · 1 year ago

Truly remarkable. Between this and past comments by DHS officials, who needs us? This Orwellian image, political affiliation included, is a pretty compelling reason in and of itself to be against the REAL ID.
peter · 1 year ago

At least they are sensitive enough not to list the person's weight! We would not want to offend anyone.

The two party system would love to have REAL ID list political preference and be required for voting. It would be done under the auspices of preventing fraud (looking forward to fingerprint authentication before you vote?), but would be used as a political tool to more efficiently track who is voting and from what party. Race, religion, and other demographics would help them to better target people with customized messages in the future.
eee_eff · 1 year ago

It's interesting that libertarians see this as overstep by the government.

I would say that it is trespass by a corporation, as it is, aided by the government. The reason why the government is aiding these corporations is that we have so weakened the civic power structures that they don't stand up to the big corporations anymore.