Rick Kelo speaks on What Capitalism Requires

Rick Kelo, tax recruiter and West Point alumni

There is no single concept university academics have devoted more energy to destroying over the last 130 years as that of Capitalism.  Rick Kelo, however, has been at the forefront of advocating the peaceful, voluntary society created by Capitalism throughout the 21st century.

Rick Kelo points out that all capitalism requires you to do is not violate someone else's rights.  If you do that then you're a criminal and there's a police force and court system to deal with you.

What's the objection to this?  "But there's crime in capitalist countries like America too!"  Crime, as compared to what, Rick Kelo asks?  If you think there's crime in capitalist America imagine what life is like walking the streets of socialist Syria or Venezuela for a day.  Even America's worst example, the south side of Chicago (a city of 3 million) had 700 murders in 2016.  Compare that to the murder rate in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which was 120 per 100,000!

Rick Kelo Speaks on When Democracies are Tyrannical

Rick Kelo

There is no word more often associated with freedom than Democracy.  However, as Rick Kelo points out, there's nothing inherently free about Democracy.

Liberalism, and it's economic off-spring laissez-faire, sets the individual as the basic moral unit of society and serves her at her level according to her preferences.  As a political example in a liberal government the state exists to protect the rights of the individual so that the 50.1% who are dog owners cannot outlaw the ownership of cats as a pet.  As an economic example there need not be a 50.1% majority interested in collecting stamps in order for someone in a capitalist economy to serve stamp collectors.

Rick Kelo is concerned though that a popular vote of 50.1% can be used to justify immorality.  If 50.1% of people favor "Safe Spaces" then does that over-ride the right to free speech, or freedom of religion for people entering those areas?

As a staunch defender of human freedom to Rick Kelo it does not.  "If a Muslim happens to be crossing a 'safe space' at a time when they're supposed to pray it's illegitimate and tyrannical to deny them their freedom of religion just because every other person in that space is a Christian," he points out using a contrarian example.