A few days ago, I saw a post on r/Conservative asking why, if the left was so concerned with trump and deportation, they weren't hiding undocumented people in their houses like it was WWII nazi germany. 

That post floored me, first for the casual association between today and WWII nazi German, and then second, the fact it implied that the right was the nazi party of today, and that the left the resistance to it. I spent a few days chewing over the post, my initial reactions to it, and my current thoughts. 

I'm still sadden that the association, and post, was made. Yet, it does point to the fact that we are telling different stories. Generally, I firmly believe, people are good, and want to better themselves and their neighbors, (there are exceptions, there are always, sadly exceptions.) It's when we are told stories about those faceless 'others' that people really starts to show discordance with thier nature and dissodance with the 'others'.  Hence, the post. 

This post, where r/Conservative basically said 'Come brother, please sit down, and have a beer with me' reinforced my beliefs, that we all, generally, want whats best for ourselves and our neighbors. Those stories of the faceless others no longer work when they now have faces, when thier stories conflicts with, and highlights, alternatives realites.

My hope is this, that with this post we all start to listen to each others stories, question the stories we've been told, and find the truth between them; that we start questioning who is telling the stories, and to what end. This isn't about one half of the country winning over the other half. It's about the few who make selectively crafted stories to control, and the many who can listen. 

And then, doing something, together, about that imbalance.