Moving forward / early journal work

I feel like I've finally made an actual start in my journal over the holiday, I haven't done as much as I'd like but hopefully I'm starting to get the hang of it. I've been using quite violent imagery to represent the turbulence of the political landscape over the last few weeks. I've been trying to balance this political side with the historical element I initially wanted to take this project in, but I don't feel like the historical element is as relevant to what I want to talk about. I think the best thing to do is keep trying things out in the journal to figure out what specific direction to take the essay in. I'm having difficulty focusing between going in a direction concerning history, politics or society. While I think there are links between all these things, they will bog the essay down if I try to assess all of them at once so really I need to choose one to properly pursue.