re: #342 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am just trying to make the point that any of the measures they are promoting are just grandstanding and posturing or even more sinister in nature.

Nobody on right or left would go for such a thing, even though it would be the cheapest and most effective solution, and like universal health care, something that almost every other civilized nation already does and has been doing for decades…

I haven’t read much on the left opposing national ID cards, but perhaps that is because I am the only left in my town.

A quick search for “national ID card USA” yields nothing but conservative, libertarian, and right-wing think tanks, plus FOX News Channel, World Nut Daily and conservative magazines like Forbes arguing against it, with a Washington Post article arguing in its favour.

Wingnut sites are opposed to Real ID for drivers licences, making arguments like “gunz” and “direct trip to the police station.”