Yeah, it's brought up from time to time but the right hates national ID programs and enough on the left don't like it (including elected officials, not just voters—the distinction's worth mentioning) that it'd take an implausibly-huge supermajority of Democrats to ever pass such a thing.

Never mind that all the things they're worried about would barely even be easier with an official national ID versus what exists now. Let alone hard/impossible without one.

But no, we just suffer though tons of wasted time for all bureaucratic processes and all kinds of hassle keeping our documents in order and tons of fraud and abuse instead. For no benefit. So we can pretend the government can't already "make a database" about dissidents or gun owners or Christians or whoever very nearly as easily and effectively as if we had an official national ID, if they wanted to. Sigh.

I think it's worth noting here that the passive resistance to the idea of a national ID among Democrats has a lot to do with Republicans regularly hijacking voter ID bills to specifically make things harder for the poor and minorities, and the expectation that they would absolutely do the same for any national ID program that actually got Republican support.