Comment by chr15m

This type of centralisation presents a classic tail risk. It's wonderful and works perfectly well for everybody and the government does nothing wrong with it. It's all fine and good until the day it isn't. Some authoritarian gets voted in, or the country gets invaded, or a corporation buys off politicians, or an immoral law is passed which you disagree with, and suddenly the digital ID is a point of leverage used to coerce you.

Liberal democracy is a very young experiment and people do not realise how fragile it is. In the 1940s less than 10% of countries were democratic, and we could go back there again easily.