Compassion for each other

It's Election Eve, and here are some gentle words from Astrobarry, which will be good to keep in mind tomorrow whatever happens.

"Along our way, each of us will meet countless other individuals facing the same fundamental life questions […] though many will approach them from positions in sharp contrast to ours. What inspires our hope may trigger their terror. What represents our liberation may constitute the radical destruction of their near-and-dear values. And what we may do to try and build these fresh freedoms into our reigning social structures, they might seek to undermine or sabotage in righteous refusal to bow down.

"Can't you see? We are both us and them… in different guises, based on the situation. No matter what side of history we find ourselves on, the other players deserve our basic human respect—regardless of whether we feel they've given us the same. Compassion's got to start somewhere."