Real ID is very worrying and I’m hopeful that it eventually goes away as it keeps getting delayed.
If you _want_ a Federal ID that is accepted by all states, you can certainly get a passport. It's what I often use for ID.
If there were some pressing real world need for it then perhaps it would be acceptable. There isn't though, so I can only interpret such a move in the most cynical of terms (ie exploiting 9/11 to increase federal power).
It's already fairly difficult to get by without a state ID or passport. They're often required where they aren't really needed simply because everyone is assumed to have at least a driver's license. States already collect far more information about you (IMO) than they have any business doing. Various forms of state issued ID are already more than sufficient for the vast majority of use cases. In the rare instance that greater security is required for some reason, passports exist and can be used.
(As an example, the DoD has legitimate real world security concerns. As such they've had their own ID card system, which includes a PKI chip, for far longer than most institutions. But no one is complaining (I hope) about being subject to stringent ID requirements while working for the military.)
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can't reply directly to the GDP comment as some cry baby has flagged my post and then a free speech loving mod has shadow-banned me with "you're submitting too fast".
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GDP comparison in $$ terms is a really uninformative comparison. Even between states inside the USA it doesn't work due to different land costs.
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social mobility: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...
USA: 27th. Like the UK, the place you were supposed to break free from - anyone can make it!
Here's a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_court_decisio...
That's "won" is it? You've gone backwards compared to most countries, even if you did write some of it down on a piece of paper.
It's damaging to other countries, for example in the UK emploers are always trying to lower standards to align with new USA lows.
Downvote patriots, instead of fixing your country.
This is the danger you wade into when commenting psuedo-authoritatively about the internal politics of another Nation. You're very unlikely to have a complete picture, or deep enough understanding to make anything but surface-level superficial comments. The only sources available are partisan and political, particularly the stuff that makes it's way overseas. It would be unreasonable to expect otherwise.
As an American, I could easily retort we could have all the nice things if you European's would just pay for your own militaries for once! But that would be a gross simplification of international politics, and a, likely, gross mischaractarization of your country's politics.
Check out the relative prosperity of the US States individually vs the world:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/us-gdp-per-capita-by-state-vs...
There are plenty of issues, but all countries have them, the US just tends to get the biggest magnifying glass on theirs.