Apologies for the potentially inflammatory topic, but I’m not American and find one thing a bit confusing.
On all the news sites there is all this doom and gloom about Jan 6 as the “end of democracy” and other similar overly cynical headlines. Strangely, I can not find a single comparison or even reference to the similar Capital Hill Autonomous Zone event that happened just a few months later.
Both were violent insurrection attempts that resulted in deaths, vandalism and destruction of property yet everyone seems to have forgotten the latter despite it lasting for a lot longer. (did anyone even get charged with anything from the latter?). Is it because Jan 6 targeted a protected class (politicians) and the other only affected the lower class that the media does not focus on it? Or is it just anything anti-Trump is good, no matter what?
Well, yes, anything that is anti-Trump is automatically good.
Where you are confused, I think, is with your definition of insurrection. The autonomous zone was a protest. At times, a violent one, but a protest, nevertheless.
The actual insurrection was on 1/6, when people did not merely defy the government but tried to overthrow/overturn it.
January 6th was an attack against the foundation of our democratic system and stuff basically every American knows and holds central: that we have a peaceful election every four years for the President of the United States and a peaceful transition of power. It was also attack on one of the premiere Federal buildings that everyone recognizes as a symbol of US government.
CHAZ was a lengthy protest in an area most Americans are unfamiliar with and doesn’t affect them in any way, real or symbolic. It was also an offshoot of the George Floyd protests versus an attempt to undermine the central tenets of our democratic system.
You might notice from the charges which have been filed in connection with the treason on January 6, 2021, there’s nothing to do with politicians being a protected class, but rather it’s the building and the event that were protected. At least that’s the way it appears to me.
The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest caused one death confirmed-
"16-year-old black male, Antonio Mays Jr., was killed " amd one maybe, at the edge, before the zone was fully set up.
January 6: 5 deaths (1 from gunshot, 1 from drug overdose, 3 from natural causes)[18][19]
Injuries * Unknown number of rioters, including at least five hospitalized[20]
and Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months.[33]
Now, there is no doubt that the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest was a really tragic and sad thing. The death of a child, maybe one adult, and several injured, plus quite a bit of property damage. But the endgame there was not the violent overthrow of the US government, it was cutting the police budget.
And note the reason behind the two:
Seattle- The Police are killing too many black men. Which is true.
DC- we are a bunch of sore, deluded losers.
This is what separates functioning democracies from dictatorships. The person who is in charge of the Armed Forces walks away when their time is up. This is the thing that prevents tyranny, not the 1st Amendment, not the 2nd Amendment, not Checks and Balances or the Courts, or any Rules written down on some old piece of paper. The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces goes away peacefully when the people elect someone else.
January 6 was an attempt to interrupt that process.
OP, there appears to be some errors of fact in your OP. As others have mentioned, the CHAZ happened before the treasonous attack on the US Capitol. Also, the CHAZ was not an insurrection. It doesn’t seem to be similar in any way to the attack on the US Capitol. It was more like a prolonged protest to police violence, similar to other such protests. The treasonous attack on the US Capitol was short-lasting and was instigated by the US president, neither of which are similar to CHAZ.
Maybe ask a mod to close this thread and try again with a more fact-based thread?