As you point out, it's not most efficient path to resolving differences in America, but I can't say that forcefully pushing through police lines, breaking windows, and illegally entering the Capitol should be allowed to happen without penalty.

People make their choices, and they pay the consequences -- they're not puppets completely devoid of individual agency.

But yes, it's endemic in current American culture that incitement goes unpunished while action takes the charge. In politics, in business, and in religion.

If we want to solve underlying problems, there need to be more disincentives to whipping your supporters/employees/believers into a frenzy.

Shared culpability seems a good start.