“And this last enactment [affirmation of Voting Rights in 2006], not a single vote in the Senate against it. And the House is pretty much the same.
Now, I don’t think that’s attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement.
It’s been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.
Antonin Scalia, Speaking About the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Feb 27, 2013
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Unfortunately the same logic applies to the welfare state and the police State.
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