What has happened to the opposition to the President elect? We have had personal contact with several of those who were hoping to retain the power levers of our National government. We will liken the answer to the question above to the classic movie “Run Silent, Run Deep”. Many have run away to hide. We know this because most of the main cable channel news organizations that have dominated opposition coverage of the elected President, have seen their ratings plummet. We know of friends that have gone silent in reference to watching news, and we even know of others that have quit jobs in an attempt to recover from their heart-breaking loss. In the movie mentioned above, “Run Silent, Run Deep”, a 1958 American black-and-white film that started Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, adapted from the 1955 novel of the same name, “the story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, and deals with themes of vengeance, endurance, courage, loyalty, and honor, and how these can be tested during wartime.” (Wikipedia.) The sub crew often went deep into the ocean and ran silent to avoid the sub-hunters on the ocean surface. While much of this can be mimicked by those who lost the current Presidential election, we believe another movie will be more in-line with the course ahead for those of the losing party.
Let’s now talk about another submarine film titled, “Das Boot”. This is a 1981 West German war film adapted from a 1973 German novel based on Lothar-Gunther Buchheim’s experiences aboard German submarine U-96 in World War II in the “Battle of the Atlantic”. “It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country.” The sub endures “relentless North Atlantic gales”, “attacked with depth charges”, and is forced “to dive below test depth, the submarine’s rated limit.” (Wikipedia.) To make the story shorter for you, let’s just say the sub suffers major damage with multiple conflicts and limps to port, seemingly reaching safety, only to be bombed and strafed by the Royal Air Force while tied to the dock, where several of the crew are killed or wounded and the captain collapses and dies watching his U-boat sink. This is the last scene in the movie, seen in the short video clip below.
Now for the life application. Those who failed in the recent Presidential election are not entirely defeated. They will continue to fight for what they believe in, will have some victories, and will have some losses. Ultimately, if our analogy holds true, they will eventually be overcome. The following months and years will require fortitude, loyalty, patriotism, transparency, and a willingness to forge ahead, even in the face of setbacks, and “battle” loses, but these will not define the “war’s” conclusion. If your FREEDOM and LIBERTY are to be saved and retained, current celebrations are to be avoided, believing the battle for the “soul” of our Nation has been saved. What happened last November 5 was only the beginning. The end to the “conflict” cannot yet be seen, so vigilance and personal involvement must continue. Only then, when our bloated National government has been trimmed down to the levels originally intended by our Founding Fathers, can we rest on our laurels, and will those who rest in countless National Cemetaries, be proud of our efforts.
