Tolerance. It's a word we hear a lot these days, so let's define it.

Tolerance is the ability to live with people whose opinions and behavior you don't agree with.

That's essentially how Oxford defines it, how Merriam Webster defines it, and how we as a society have always defined it.

You might be for the death penalty and your cousin might be against it.

You might be against a $15 minimum wage and your coworker might be for it.

Your dad might have voted for Trump, your mom might have voted for Clinton, and your brother may not have voted at all.

Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.

America itself was built on a foundation of tolerance.

The Declaration of Independence guarantees us life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But there's an implicit contract there.

To have your life, your liberty, and your pursuit of happiness, you have to be tolerant of somebody else's life, their liberty, and their pursuit of happiness.

This contract, though, seems to be breaking down.

If you listen to the mainstream media, only one side is living up to this deal.

The left.

The right, according to the media, is intolerant of everyone.

Except those darned white heterosexual Christian males.

There's only one problem.

It's just not true.

Incredibly, the left isn't even tolerant of the very people they say they're tolerant of.

If you're gay or black or an immigrant and you're not in lockstep with current leftist orthodoxy, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

If you believe we should judge people on the content of their character and not the color of their skin, the left calls racist.

If you believe that America is a nation of immigrants, but that our country should also protect its borders, the left calls you a xenophob.

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