Hollings on democratization

I’m not an admirer of Sen. Fritz Hollings, but this comment of his about democratization, made in an interview with the Washington Post (and copied by Steve Sailer, who also quotes my e-mail on the “Three Faces of George”) is excellent:

You can’t force-feed democracy. But to walk into a place where religion is stronger than freedom—they’re not looking for freedom, they’re looking for religion. Five times a day, they’re down on their knees, man. You can’t find that in America. You can’t get ‘em to go on their knees on Sunday—

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 15, 2004 02:11 AM | Send