This actually gives me a bit of hope about the political situation… the idea that union and division need each other suggests if not blown apart, union will move in to displace the division with cooperation…

Hegel made the important point that sameness and difference, unity and division, have themselves to be unified; this seems to me from experience clearly right. Note this suggests the ultimate priority of the principle of union over that of division, despite the necessary part played by division at one stage of the process. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)