The controversial Real ID officially goes into effect today. It marks the end of a process that began 20 years ago as a national security response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. For the most part, it went unnoticed over the years until citizens began to panic about the approaching deadline to switch to a Real ID. Critics have blasted it, hysterically labeling it as a privacy threat, government overreach, and other senseless paranoias. While it isn’t any of those things, it is an example of a stupid decision from a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy.

Think about this: It took less time for President Donald Trump to go from game show host to president of the United States than it did for a government-mandated security measure, deemed necessary to help prevent terrorist attacks, to be implemented. If that’s not emblematic of some of our elected officials’ foolish decisions, then what is?