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Bob Chitester, founder of the Free to Choose Network, is "not optimistic" about the future.

Chitester talked about his pessimistic outlook about what lies ahead for the country prior to receiving an honorary Doctorate of Law degree at Northwood University. 

"Northwood has a long and distinguished reputation for advancing economic freedom and offering students both the practical information they need to be successful, as well as to give them a basic understanding of the principles that underlie our system. That freedom is at the heart of entrepreneurial capitalism," he told the host of WJR's "The Frank Beckmann Show."

Bob Chitester, Founder | Free to Choose Network

He said the reason for his pessimism is that there aren't many universities like Northwood out there.  Chitester named Hillsdale, Grove City and other religious-based schools that have similar dedication to upholding those ideas.

"But they are just swamped, in terms of numbers, by the number of colleges and universities that are totally in control of the left, of the socialist ideals," he told Beckmann. "And so I'm pessimistic about it in that sense."

Chitester used freedom of religion as an example. He said it's been attacked "in a very aggressive way" for at least the past decade, noting more detractors from that freedom now than there were four decades ago when he and Milton Friedman started Free to Choose.

"I think that's indicative of how far we've gone in the other direction, in terms of being against traditional culture," Chitester told Beckmann. "The family, freedom of religion and using the civil rights banner to advance all kinds of rights, which are nothing more than preferential treatment based on one's ethnic group or the group they belong to."

Chitester also stated that should Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden be elected next month, it would impact the country in a negative way.