What I want moving forward

I want all people to be treated equally and fairly. 

I want the police to treat all citizens equally regardless of the color of their skin. 

I want all of us to agree storming the capitol is a gross immoral and illegal activity bordering on sedition. 

I want us all to agree on right and wrong regardless of who is doing it.  Something cannot be right for one person or party and then wrong for the opposing person or party

I want one standard of justice for all class of people. Politicians (left or right) are not above the law anymore than any other citizen. 

I want a return of empathy for my fellow man (and woman), with less selfish righteousness

I want to have a community that cares for all of its citizens and not my immediate pack or cohort  

Will the Democrats achieve my agenda now that they control Congress and the White House? I doubt it.   I assume the Republican party will work to block everything they can because there is no incentive to negotiate.  Supporters on both sides have been conditioned to believe negotiating or conceding is unacceptable and only full victory including the full and total humiliation of your opponent is worthy in the political spectrum (so ridiculous that we treat politics like sport) 

Will the media continue to sow dissent because that drives ratings and media dollars? Absolutely? 

The real question is how do we get out of this viscous circle before this turns into a hot war? A large percentage of the right has already said they will not accept Biden similarly to how they perceive the left receiving Trump. 

From my perspective the right has been told for 30 years that the left is their enemy, they are socialists, that liberalism is a disease, that they hate our country. Hell I have been accused by a friend of hating the country and I absolutely lost my shit on him.  So please don't ever question my patriotism, I don't need to attend rallies or boat parades to prove I love my country. Nobody has the right to question anyone’s loyalty unless they are defecting to another country. 

My question is how do we overcome the bias that has developed (sure on both sides) to avoid that conflict? 

How do we go back to conversation and negotiations over what is best for the country which has largely been absent since Gingrich and McConnell took over the Republican Party because when you have an open dialogue you can find common ground. Right now there is no desire to search for that  peacefully. 

So is the Democratic control of the WH and Congress going to change that? Not at all. What will change that is people coming together to demand Citizens United be revoked and the fair reporting doctrines that force media to accurately report both sides. Right now we live in a dangerous world with parallel information sources providing grossly different information. The first thing we need to do is go back and agree upon right and wrong and hold all elected officials to that same standard 

Until then we are all just whistling Dixie