Yes. There is a durable political coalition against national ID cards and a database. On the right Republicans don’t trust the government to not abuse the data

Yes. There is a durable political coalition against national ID cards and a database. On the right Republicans don’t trust the government to not abuse the data nor to actually implement it competently. On the left Democrats are concerned about the left behind (poverty, unbanked, illegal immigrant, no broadband, no transportation or PTO) and privacy (not just from the government). So we hobble along with the status quo of state driver’s licenses, SSN, DOB, and Equifax, Experian, and Transunion. Even if there was a national ID it’s just the tip of the iceberg of many bureaucracies that look into the computers that connect to a COBOL backend.p that expects SSNs and reacts poorly to Sr/Jr or people with the same name and birthday.