>> Notice that the core element of all the efforts by the Left now involve the establishment or improvement of databases on the citizenry. <<
Except there is no new database. Pay attention.
>> They want them for you to work, <<
Your problem appears to be with Ronald Reagan’s I-9 program. Tell you what, when you succeed in getting rid of social security, welfare, medicare, income tax, earned income credits, etc., the E-Verify program probably will be much less necessary. In the meanwhile, we can quit shooting ourselves in the head in spite of our Democrat opponents.
I’m sorry you can’t see the difference between a voluntary and a mandatory use of this database to determine whether or not someone can earn their daily bread.
Of course, anyone with a brain has known all along that their intent in establishing the voluntary database was to turn it into a mandatory one.
The answer when the statist camel’s nose is in the tent is not to resign yourself to living with the camel, the answer is to cut off the camel’s nose.
An America in which a citizen has to get permission from the government to work is no longer America. It’s the Soviet Union.