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?”