You said it perfectly with this,
Why do the MSM and social media (pretty much) solely focus on what divides us? Why are people now taking up the mantle and becoming personal progenitors in our isolation and division? Instead of laughing at others choices and opinions I feel now is the time to engage people and try to understand why they made them. Yes there are some complete arseholes and megalomaniacs in this crazy old world of ours, but there is still far more good than bad. If we engage people we may just find that the vast majority of us want the same things, we just have different perspectives on how to achieve them. Within that understanding there is a foundation for a unity that can be built upon. Or we can just carry on exactly the way we are and see where this dusty old road leads us. The choice is in each of our hands.