“...you have to submit to an ID Card process.”
You already have to do that with a driver’s license, Social Security, enroll in college or anything else, or buy anything online.
I am against a national registry that compiles state information to do an end run on the need for a national ID Card.
Further, Social Security Cards are not a form of ID. They merely document your Social Security number. Another ID is used to verify who you are.
So the separating is there. Does the federal government abuse this? Certainly. Should it? I don’t believe so.
If I show up at an airport, what difference is it who I am? Isn’t the important thing that I don’t have anything on me to cause a problem?
IMO the Homeland Security procedure at the airport has very little to do with actual terrorism, and more than anything else to do with tracking your movement.
In coming years, I think this issue will loom a lot larger. ID Cards will be tied to other things, and will eventually be something that can be used to cut off your rights, easier than turning off a light switch.
These are incremental steps. I don’t like the pathway.