The TSA exists to normalize control. It doesn't matter if it works or not at stopping terrorists, the point was never to actually prevent terrorism. Much like "

The TSA exists to normalize control. It doesn't matter if it works or not at stopping terrorists, the point was never to actually prevent terrorism. Much like "communism" or "drugs" during the wars on those two things, "terrorism" is just a convenient excuse to expand the surveillance and police states in the name of "security", and much like with the activities the NSA and social media companies get up to spying on people and stealing their data, everyone complains about the TSA but no one ever does anything to actually challenge the existence of it. In fact, it only helps this agenda that going through the TSA is often a demeaning or dehumanizing (especially if you're POC or trans, interestingly enough) or at least extremely annoying experience; we still have to put up with this, and the state knows this. When you go through the TSA, what you're supposed to get out of it is "I will comply with what the state wants even if it's completely nonsensical and unpleasant" In that respect I'd say the TSA has been a resounding success and probably isn't going anywhere.