Trial Period is over

I saw the following on January 7th on Facebook:

I am returning 2021 I had my 7 day trial and I am not impressed.  

Well it went something like that.  It was a tumultuous start to 2021.  The events on January 6th even pushed covid numbers off the front page.  I, like most watched with unbelieving eyes as events unfolded.  I was doubly horrified as reports surfaced later in the day of the actual events.  Like most, wondering how it all came to this.  I am not a fan of the current President but I have a hard time believing that one man is responsible for all that we saw.  I even don't believe a single faction of a political party could foster such insurrection.   Still I sit and wonder how it all came about.

The great verbal waste land we call Facebook was and still is full of opinions.  Almost all blaming one side or the other.  I don't think I saw a single post that did not fully support a particular side of the political spectrum.  Now do not worry, I am not going to abandon Facebook and my friends on the left or the right.  I fully admit I read your posts more for entertainment than facts.  Also sometimes I have a hard time determining if a particular post is supporting the left or the right.  I quite often have to look at who posted the information to determine the political leaning.  Well enough Facebook comments.  Besides if it were not for people posting on Facebook how would the FBI know who was sitting at Senator Pelosi's Desk?

What I really look to discover is where do we (I) go from here?  I do not think this issue is going to fix itself.  Do I think the government is going to fix this?  I doubt that very much.  I think this is too big a problem for any one entity to solve.  I guess the first thought would be to decide whether or not this is fixable.  Can it be solved in the way a broken bone can be set and healed.  Or is this more of a spinal injury that can only be addressed by learning how to live confined to a wheel chair.  More generally does this problem get resolved or do we need to change?  

Big question, no answer here. 

The easy answer is probably that both need to happen.  Storming legislative chambers or looting stores doesn't solve the problems.  I feel that either act is unlawful and the perpetrators should face the consequences dictated by law and justice.  Violence only leads to more violence.

I think of the events of 2020 like a volcano.  In a volcano pressure builds over centuries.  Then a crack appears and then an eruption.  Like Mount St. Helens half the mountain is gone.  I felt the events of 2020 unfolded the same way.  Years of pressure then a fissure then eruption.  Racial injustice for decades builds pressure then a police officer commits a horrible act of kneeling on a mans neck until he dies (the crack) then an eruption.  As for attacks on the capital I am not really sure the source of pressure but the crack was certainly fostered by comments of a stolen election.  In both cases the cracks would not have lead to the eruptions if the pressure had not built over time.

Maybe that is what we need to change as a country.  The cracks can be addressed and may always appear but I think we ignore the pressure for too long.  The cracks are horrific but with out the pressure there is no eruption.