This crap is getting old.
As a reminder, until just a few years ago, Americans didn't need passports to travel to Mexico or Canada (and vice-versa). World-class Caribbean tropical resorts, stunning mountain vistas in the Canadian Rockies, top-of-the-line Disney theme parks, amazing 24/7 action in cities like New York and Las Vegas... Americans could visit them all, without a passport.
As another reminder, until just a few years ago, Europeans needed passports to travel through Europe. Germans needed passports to visit Mediterranean resorts. Belgians needed passports to visit Italy.
If a Texan needed a passport to visit Florida, you bet that Americans would have a proportional number of passports as Europeans. And now that Americans need passports to visit Mexico and Canada, any disparity that did exist has shrunk immensely.
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I have written a lot about this phenomenon, especially how curious it is that people who tell us that flying is bad since it causes global warming also complain that Americans don't visit foreign countries enough, even though flying is the only realistic way for most Americans to visit any foreign country.
The government puts its own citizens through h___ and leaves the border wide open...so stupid and the voters keep voting this group back in to office...oh well in a few years all the riff-raff will be out of Mexico and we can go there and make it into a functional country.
Actually, I think technically you still need your passport in Europe. It is just that they no longer check them at the border.
(I am an American living in London -- as Britain is outside the Schwengen territory, I need my passport to go everywhere.)
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