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I would love one presidential candidate to include this in their platform. I have yet to hear this (unless I just missed this person!).

A massive overhaul & reduction in all of this security theater. NSA and others already do the heavy lifting of identifying people planning bad things. Can we just do a basic metal detector or something and call it a day?

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Well one candidate has you covered. He wants to dismantle the DHS. Unfortunately his platform comes with a certain amount of other baggage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Tangent: Is this something actually serious or is it more of saber-rattling manifesto because good lord it's terrifying.

Oh, it's serious. Sure, he doesn't have the logistical or institutional knowledge and abilities to actually execute on it on its own, but his allies do, and they've shown that they'll do whatever it takes to keep riding this tiger, even at the cost of the country.

It is completely serious. It is put out by the Heritage Foundation and has input from a bunch of conservative organizations including many with close ties to Trump campaign.

A reduction in security theater may have a dependency on reduction in democracy theater. :(

Whenever the Libertarian party chooses their candidate, he or she will almost certainly be on board with it.