I would have to disagree. You're giving up your rights by allowing them that much power over your life. By being part of the Real ID program the government can track you everywhere and all of your information is now in a federal database for easy access. Honestly Social Security is already on a federal level. Even so, people still forge fake IDs and licenses all the time. Forcing people to show more and more ridiculous requirements in order to renew a freaking license isn't going to prevent people from being able to scan/photoshop and create fake laminated ID cards.
No, instead the harsher and harsher restrictions and showing of papers makes it incredibly difficult for citizens who have to constantly move or are poor to be able to function in society as is. I know because I've been there. My lifestyle is extremely mobile due to changing circumstances and it's a lot of unnecessary red tape I have to go through in order for them to change my license. The push for Homeland Security and the Real ID Act does nothing to prevent issues to the country's safety nor is it productive to the average citizen. Every time I renew my ID in the Midwest I have to show my social security card, birth certificate, passport/student ID, bank account information, 2 pieces of mail with current address in the last 60 days or longer just to prove that I am who I am. That's incredibly difficult when I'm moving between every 3 months to every 2 years. You know what the most hilarious irony of that is? There's still going to be people who will create fake documentation like that and still get by.
It does nothing for criminals. It punishes legit citizens like myself instead.