> The nonexistence of a national ID system makes digital identification unnecessarily difficult.
You can thank the Christians in the Reagan years for calling damned near everything "The Mark of the Beast", including social security numbers, attempted creation of a national ID, and more.
So we ended up with a de-facto national ID, being a hodgepodge of state IDs, RealID, SSN, credit scores from multiple (horrific) credit vendors, legal records, and plenty more.
You can thank the Christians in the Reagan years for calling damned near everything "The Mark of the Beast", including social security numbers, attempted creation of a national ID, and more.
So we ended up with a de-facto national ID, being a hodgepodge of state IDs, RealID, SSN, credit scores from multiple (horrific) credit vendors, legal records, and plenty more.