The police officers of the Capitol Riots had a tough job that day. It wasn't coffee, check lists and patrol as usual. When chaos occurs and people must fall back on their training and instinct is when we know things got serious. What happened during this time was not a pure coincidence and was more likely a result of multiple factors coming to head at one time (pandemic, sociological shifts, foreign manipulation of media, possible "agents" hyping the crowd, etc...etc...) It was not a normal day for these officers and for the nation that could have been thrown into violence if a mob would have turned right instead of left down a hallway that led to other congress members (This was a serious day that forces us to reflect on our political dysfunction on both sides. I don't know if all of our politicians are truly grasping he danger of hyper politics and its rhetoric and lack of wide reaching solutions.)
In this battle for America's soul we have those who follow the Constitution and those who follow a narrow sense of what American should look like (Its not pro or anti any party. Its what they see America to be). In many ways I wish I could have been there to help. We have one country and attacking the capital never was the solution to our problems (Whether spontaneous or more guided.). We should encourage our leadership to work together to bring different perspectives back to the center of rational thought. That is hard when we sideline those who want partisan solutions for those who seek to pull us in opposite directions (Talking louder and smarter are different things!). This is our time in our history to stand up for essential principles beyond our political aspirations.
Sometimes we can see the trends growing...... See Research on Gab Media Hate, Social Media and Hate and Michigan Extremism-Hate Reform Idea ...sometimes we don't have the foresight or political capital to act early and we are not prepared for curve balls like this.
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