Americans not having a national ID system has nothing to do with what Americans want. It is expressly unconstitutional for the Federal government to require suc

Americans not having a national ID system has nothing to do with what Americans want. It is expressly unconstitutional for the Federal government to require such a thing, only the individual States have the authority to issue IDs and the States are required to recognize these documents from other States. Again, the US is organized more like the EU than a single country. Consequently, all Federal identification documents are strictly voluntary (like passports), which means some significant fraction of the population will never have them.