Charles Todorich is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a resident of South Portland. He can be reached at [email protected]. “Believe in tolerance,” said the bumper sticker. To my mind, “Stand up for apathy” would have been equally nonsensical. By infusing “tolerance” with moral content, modern-day Americans are shooting themselves in the foot. And we’ve been firing away for decades. Few single words better capture the spirit of the modern age than “tolerance,” the pinnacle virtue in the worldview of tens of millions of Americans, particularly liberal, college-educated baby boomers (and their progressive progeny) who came of age during the...