Originally Posted by whirledtraveler
It's because many of us are old enough to remember a time with more pride and less fear.
Still not getting it. What does showing your ID have to do with pride, or lack thereof?
Perhaps it's my European upbringing, but I honestly don't understand why it's such a big deal for some Americans to have people know who they are, or at least having these people know they are who they say they are (by virtue of their boarding pass).
I usually take a pretty liberal stance when it comes to governments checking what their citizens are doing, but in this case, I fail to see the harm or the impact on privacy, since there's no storage of data.
On international flights, I would see a problem, especially if inbound to the US as a non-US citizen. I no longer visit the States because I don't trust the current US administration with the slightest bit of my personal information. However, since on US domestic flights, the ID is only verified and no information is being stored, I honestly cannot understand what the big deal is.