The REAL reason they want you to get a REAL ID

So...many years ago, I was stopped by an officer while driving. I was at this intersection, which had a notoriously tricky left turn due to basically non-stop congestion. I ended up making the turn as the light went red. Anyhow, the officer told me that he would give me a warning and not a ticket. Fast forward about five years later. I'm now living in another state, and I am going to the DMV to renew my license. Well, surprise, surprise. I found out that I couldn't because I had an unpaid ticket that was now $300. Of course, I'm like, WTF?!? And realize that the officer who pulled me over all those years ago lied. Here's where this ties in with the REAL ID. So because of this ticket, I decided not to renew my license, on principle, and get a state ID, which was fine as I didn't actually have or need a car where I lived. But out of curiosity, I started to investigate the licensing policies across states and discovered that there is no unified system. In short, only a small number of states shared driving records with one another. In many states, you could have tickets and move to another and still get a license. That's when I realized that there has never been a unified system for tracking Americans. This is why they want people to get REAL IDs. The majority of Americans drive and don't have a passport, so that's more than half the population right there guaranteed to get a REALI D. Even a cursory check of online conversations around the REAL ID shows that a lot of people don't know that they don't have to get one if they have a passport, so that's probably another 25 percent that will get a REAL ID just because they don't fully understand the policy. In total, about 75-85 percent of America will probably get a REAL ID, and those that don't, probably mostly the elderly, have likely lived at their current address for decades (i.e., easy to locate). For those ready to argue that if you have a passport, the government can track you, the answer is yes and no. State law enforcement doesn't have access to the passport database; only federal employees do, and even then, it's limited. Yes, there's a chip in the new passports, but it's not a tracking chip. The REAL IDs, however, contain your name, address, description, face, address, and state. And while I can't prove it, I believe it's HIGHLY likely that these new IDs do, in fact, have tracking chips as it's much easier to track within domestic airspace and within the United States than across borders.