Comfort Zone

They’re counting on you clinging to your comfort zone. That’s the only way this works out for them.

They believe that, as they tear your life away from you, the life you’ve become accustomed to, that you will sit here numb and stunned unable to react.

They’re betting on the fact that you are too accustomed to the promise of something better that you won’t have the gumption to fight back at their money grabs, power grabs, and their grabs for your rights, because you don't want the inconvenience of taking action.

They think they have you figured out; that you will be intimidated by their heartless aggression and you will let them walk right over you onto their next conquest.

Question: if they show no respect or consideration for who we are or for what previous generations fought for us to have, are we going to prove them right? Are we going to sit here posting memes and complaining while they continue their agenda of disdain and disregard for our way of life?

Realize that our current life was the future promise that our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents delivered to us. We need to save what we have in the here and now if we want any hope for ourselves and those who come after us. This is our heritage and legacy as Americans: paying it forward. It’s the foundation for every promise made since 1776.

This is our heritage and legacy as Americans: paying it forward. It’s the foundation for every promise made since 1776.

But that promise is not only not handed to you, it’s being yanked from you, and if you’re sitting in your comfort zone convinced that it’s no great loss because it wasn’t working well for you, anyway, then they have calculated correctly. The American experiment is not the problem. It’s always been hard work and uncertain when challenged. The fact that they’ve been manipulating us for years, pitting us against our self-interests so that we don’t dare fight back, THAT is the problem.

As educators, we understand that learning takes place outside of our comfort zones. So does living. Think. Ask questions. Insist on answers. If this were just about stopping waste and ending excesses and catching wrongdoers, they could have made corrections within the system passed down to us from our forefathers, who didn’t live and die for us to take everything they fought for and have it dismantled by a careless, reckless minority who know the only power they have is holding us down while they see what they can get away with.

This is not a media event. This is not a spectator sport. This is happening NOW. If you sit in your comfort zone much longer, it will be too late. By this summer there will be so many actions taken against everything we’ve built for 250 years, the efforts to undo the damage will be tied up in caucus rooms and boardrooms and courtrooms and back rooms for decades. That’s what they’re counting on.

Don’t prove them right. Get out from inside your comfort zone. Get out from behind your computer screen. Take action, Speak up. Be heard. Show others what it looks like to be confident in your rights and heritage as an American citizen. Don’t be distracted by things that don’t matter. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t back down. Because if you do…that comfort zone…they’re going to take that, too.