It used to be possible to board an airplane without ID if you underwent additional screening, which was a compromise following the introduction of a post-9/11 I

It used to be possible to board an airplane without ID if you underwent additional screening, which was a compromise following the introduction of a post-9/11 ID requirement. Yesterday’s compromise is today’s loophole, so TSA got rid of additional screening, and a few months from now the TSA will be denying people with legal and valid ID the ability to board a flight as a way to coerce states into accepting a nationalized Real ID program. One day you might find yourself on a secret government no fly list because you checked out the wrong book at the library or spent too much time watching lock-picking videos. And there will be nothing you can do because we spent the last several decades building a highly efficient array of surveillance and population control systems.