[mattmaroon]

Well, technically you can do those things without ID. People do. There are people who survive without it. We have millions of undocumented immigrants who simply can’t have IDs but they get by. I really don’t know how. They’re breaking laws doing it and we lack the political will to do anything about it. (And also our economy would crumble if we somehow stopped it entirely, we are highly dependent on them.)

But man, good luck. It’s really hard to economically participate in modern society without it. Most of our country is really hard to get around in without a car. Your job opportunities are really limited without a social security number. Etc.

Whether right or wrong, we functionally have national ID and my point really was that lack of something specifically called that isn’t going to save us from the barbarians at the gate.