The legal basis of the rapid spread of "poz" is contained in the precedents that were created during the period Caldwell describes here.
These precedents destroyed the ability of citizens to freely associate and created legal apparatuses to ensure all institutions were opened to all people in the name of equality.
While that sounded good on paper, the reality has been different. In essence it is as if someone were able, with one stroke, to bend the frames of watertight hatches on a ship so they were no longer watertight.
By preventing anyone from "sealing a hatch" on the grounds of it being unfair to some, it has made it possible to keep out the flood waters that followed; no matter how hard those inside have tried to hold them closed.
