We tend to tolerate a bit of bigotry among older people as a condition of the “age in which they grew up,” but perhaps also because we know we won’t have to live with it for long. Consider, though, a world in which people in their 60s will be voting not for another twenty or thirty years but for another sixty or seventy. Imagine a man like Thurmond serving in Congress not for half a century but for an entire century. Or, if it makes it easier to envision from your place on the political spectrum, picture the politician you despise more than any other holding power longer than any other leader
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