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COACHING STAFF FOR THE WORLDWIDE WIN

A coaching staff starts at the top with the head coach.
From there it’s a bunch of coaches for the specialties, the offense, defense, special teams, quarterbacks, the works.
The smart head coach hires people who are qualified and ready to go.
How can they tell who they want?
To begin, they need people others want to work with.
That means they share the same agenda, the same goals.
Take Winston Churchill for example.
He needed people who were determined to keep England for England, not for Germany.
It was a close call with bombers over London, rocket attacks, all preparing for a ground invasion, a reverse D-Day.
But, because of solid alliances, Churchill forged a victory.
Not everyone on his coaching staff was an angel.

 

Stalin Takes A Knee, Gives A Knee

Stalin had his own agenda, but his contributions to the victory was essential.
First the Nazis raided Eastern Europe on their way to a victory over the USSR.
They were as awful an example of humanity as we’ve ever seen gathered.
After a bad winter, and poor leadership on the German side, the Red Army stormed back across Eastern Europe and dealt a heavy hand to the conquered nations, pulling them into their orbit, building the Iron Curtain, and later the Berlin Wall.
Those were not peaceful moves, but the sort or thing a despot does because why not?
Despots gonna despot.
With the United States on the world stage, Stalin fell away from the Allied goals of cooperation between nations.
Leaders with a bug up their ass for world dominion, or at least domination over the people in the land they control, are not good campers.
All they want is more than they’ve got; they might want what their neighbors have.
Lucky all that ended with the dissolution of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Just don’t tell Ukraine about it.

 

Listen To The Coaching Staff In The Room

As citizens of the USSR discovered, a leader with a loose wire in their head comes up with new ways to govern.
One of those was the knock on the door in the middle of the night, followed by a bullet in the head if things didn’t go well.
1937 was deemed The Great Terror for just such efforts.
Stalin used terms, such as “fifth column,” “enemy of the people” and “saboteurs” to describe those who were sought out during the Great Purge.
The killing and imprisonment started with members of the Bolshevik party, political officials and military members. Then the purge expanded to include peasants, ethnic minorities, artists, scientists, intellects, writers, foreigners and ordinary citizens. Essentially, no one was safe from danger.
Convinced they were plotting a coup, Stalin had 30,000 members of the Red Army executed. Historians estimate that 81 of the 103 generals and admirals were executed.
Stalin also signed a decree that made families liable for the crimes committed by a husband or father. This meant that children as young as 12 could be executed.

 

Earlier in the same decade Germany had the Night of the Long Knives.

 

In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The event became known as the Night of the Long Knives.
The leadership of the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA), whose four million members had helped bring Hitler to power in the early 1930s, was especially targeted. Hitler feared that some of his followers had taken his early “National Socialism” propaganda too seriously and thus might compromise his plan to suppress workers’ rights in exchange for German industry making the country war-ready.

 

What does The Great Terror and the Night of the Long Knives have to do with anything today?
If you find a current political candidate spewing some of the same language as two of the most foul fuckers to ever grace the planet, there’s a problem.
Once that message takes root in an election win, it’s a problem with long coattails.
Both Stalin and Hitler attracted people that make rat shit look good.
An American leader who aspires to hold power in order to payback his opponents and enemies could never find such people to help them here?
No way, right? We’re better than that.
After all, we’ve got a judicial system, a legislative system, and an executive branch to keep things in check.
That’s how it works until a shit-stirring wunderkind is hell bent on showing his true colors, except they’re not a youth.
A man who practices delivering his message on reality TV, then makes the jump to hard news without missing a beat, pulls all of his fans along with him.
King-Makers recognize the swelling ranks, give it a purpose, and turn it loose.
The January 6th insurrection riot at the Capitol was no Great Terror, or Night of the Long Knives, but it did show a willingness for otherwise normal people, decent people,  to fly off their mental balance with the right encouragement.
Any leader that studies the sort of character found in historic failures responsible for the deaths in the tens of millions as their way forward, needs a hard check.
If the results of events instigated by jack-assed dictators is appealing in a way that makes you think, ‘Those were the days,’ you might hear a knock on the door sooner than later.
“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
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Comments

  1. Perry Smith says

    So what is your point?
    I found you just a couple of days ago while doing research for an article I am writing on the Boomer Generation.
    I read many of your blogs, trying to get a sense of your political leanings, and I enjoy your writing skills.
    I thought I understood – then this.
    It is admittedly none of my business – but I have to ask – are you comparing Trump to Stalin and Hitler?

    • Thanks for stopping by Perry, and for noting my writing skills. I practice a lot, it’s not a natural gift.

      My point with Coaching Staff comes from being a lifelong sports fan, a champion athlete, a college graduate, father of champion athletes and college grads.

      With that in mind, I’ve seen good coaches and bad coaches, I’ve had good coaches and bad coaches.

      I competed for a spot on the All-Army Wrestling Team when one of the wresters was a coach who already had the team he wanted.

      It wasn’t fixed, I wasn’t cheated, but it felt a little off.

      Stay with me on this, it may get a little history-ish:

      Both Stalin and Hitler were charismatic enough, threatening enough, to draw to them people who lack charisma and power, but when they got next to the flame they heated up.

      Since you mentioned my writing skills, and thank you for that, I can make a point without getting trashy in a direct way, which is the proper approach.

      In my experience in the workplace, a boss with a loose approach, or lack of the skills associated with the job, gets swayed by the incompetence around them.

      Think of weight lifting, the good coach prioritizes form, the bad coach pushes for lifting heavy no matter the form.

      History has produced two world leaders who thought they knew what the world wanted, and they tried to implement their vision.

      Whenever a candidate calls for jailing their opponents, pursing their perceived enemies, instead of governing, they will find the people needed to do those jobs.

      My point, Perry, is to encourage readers to vote for a candidate who knows the grind of government work, not a guy susceptible to following bad advice from questionable staff.

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