Comment by throwawaysocks
10 years ago
> Imagine how fast things would change if the president had to go through the TSA.
I don't think they would change at all.
30 minutes or an hour of time is inconsequential compared to the political (and non-political...) calculations that are made by someone in an office like that. People tend to be far more conservative when given actual decision-making power, and care much more about the big picture calculations than about their personal annoyances.
More-over, lots of congress people do fly commercial and yet support the TSA (either politically or actually).
More-over, lots of congress people do fly commercial and yet support the TSA (either politically or actually).
Because they use pre-check. And congresspeople get access to the top of the tiered justice system in America so they don't care about the liberty implications of Pre-Check.
This suggests that the inefficiencies would not be fixed, but instead explicitly codified exceptions -- with a high cost to the average user but little cost to political and economic elite -- would be created.