You may honestly be right. This division needs to soften, and that won't happen until everyone finds some common ground and feels accepted. Mocking or belittlin

You may honestly be right. This division needs to soften, and that won't happen until everyone finds some common ground and feels accepted. Mocking or belittling will certainly only drive us further and further away from each other. On the other hand, I don't think we can allow this behavior to be validated in any way. As a people, we need to be able to politically disagree with one another amicably. This was not a protest for civil liberty, it was an attempt to undermine our current democratic process. They weren't calling for legislative reform, but to reverse the results of the election. We count the votes and the electorates use those numbers to certify our next president. If people are unhappy with the process, it's perfectly reasonable for them to try and change it. But lacking any evidence that the process wasn't followed, it needs to be respected, or there's not much point in having it in the first place.