{"id":409,"date":"2020-11-04T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:49:34","slug":"no-i-didnt-miss-the-pre-election-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/04\/no-i-didnt-miss-the-pre-election-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"No, I didn&#8217;t miss the pre-election hype!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderofwanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is 1 a.m. Wednesday morning here in Ireland. I have a\nbowl of popcorn on the coffee table, Barry\u2019s Irish Breakfast Tea in my mug. My\ntelevision is blaring CNN. I compulsively scan the Facebook feed on my cell\nphone. And I sit here, wrapped in a throw on a blustery early morning, totally\nawake and writing to you \u2013 who are all likely living in a much more civilized\ntime zone. It is US election time in Ireland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a somewhat surreal election season for me here\non the other side of the pond. &nbsp;I have\nbeen spared the worst of the excesses, nasty and not &#8212; the endless television\nads, the mailers, the news clips ad nauseum and ad hominem, the cluttered\ninboxes, the begging for money. I find I miss exactly none of that. No one is\ntelling me what to think, how to act, where I belong and don\u2019t belong, who my\ntribe is. I do have a tribe, and from time to time I do miss that thrill of the\nunited throng. But on the whole I am glad to have been spared the season. The\nremove has given me something I didn\u2019t even know I lacked \u2013 perspective. People\nare going about their lives here, mildly to moderately interested in the\nAmerican presidential election, not at all interested in the makeup of the\nSenate and House, at least as far as I can see. With sons and daughters, aunts\nand uncles, cousins and friends living in the US, it makes sense that many\nIrish people have a passing interest in our politics. And no doubt because of\nthis, the Irish television station RTE is providing live coverage of the\nresults tonight. But my guess is that most people are in their beds sound\nasleep right now, as any normal person should be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short, America is not the center of the universe here.\nPerspective!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not to say that folks here don\u2019t have opinions. As I\nam learning, the Irish are not shy about sharing their thoughts. As I am also\nlearning, they have a fine-honed sense of their own internal politics, perhaps\nnot surprising in a relatively new country where freedom has been hard fought.\nSo this is a not atypical casual conversation, held after hearing my American\naccent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cHow long\nare you here for?\u201d (This sometimes said with a tinge of distrust because what\nthe feck is an American doing here during COVID?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI live\nhere, right down the road as a matter of fact.\u201d (This important to say right up\nfront so they know who they\u2019re dealing with!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cDo you\nnow?\u201d always with a smile, and after establishing my bona fides, then,\ninevitably, spontaneously\u2026\u201cSo, what\u2019s up with yer man?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">              (It\u2019s understood, correctly, that I know exactly to whom he or she is referring.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cHe\u2019s\nsomething, isn\u2019t he?\u201d Or sometimes, depending, \u201cI\u2019m afraid he\u2019s not my man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cHow can\nhe get away with doing (or saying) those things? What was he thinking when he\nsaid\u2026\u201d and they are off on a riff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Variations on this theme have happened often enough that it\u2019s\nfair to say many people at least in my little neck of the woods do not hold\nDonald Trump in high regard. I suspect this is because many likely do not\nunderstand his type. The unabashed, superwealthy capitalist is a peculiar\nAmerican phenomenon and many here are just a few generations removed from the\nould sod. However, I did have one conversation with an ardent supporter of the\npresident. He built a towering stone livestock wall next to his driveway that he\nproudly, and with more than a smidgeon of craic (fun), calls \u201cthe Trump wall.\u201d It\ntranspires that he is a devotee of small or, really, nonexistent government,\nstarting with the local county council on up. When I pointed out that the\nnational debt has increased under this president, he demurred. Here\u2019s the deal,\nthough. We had a lively repartee tinged with humor, and I know at least for my\npart I left the conversation feeling I had engaged in a real exchange of ideas.\nRemember back in 2016 when we were all urged to listen to the other side, and\nto respectfully share our own thoughts? Sadly, the camps are set along\nfault-lines in the states these days. I am not entirely sure I could have\nreplicated that conversation there. Perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been most interested in learning how leaders in\nIreland and, more broadly, Europe are viewing the election. Ireland is bracing\nfor a hard Brexit at the end of the year, and the recently passed government\nbudget not only reflected increased borrowing for COVID-related expenses but\nfor this contingency as well. The UK government is pushing through changes to\nits Brexit agreement with the European Union that the government itself said\nviolates international law. The changes would affect Northern Ireland, which in\nturn is expected affect the Republic of Ireland in ways big and small. This has\nbeen a big deal over here. Biden said he will not trade with an independent UK that\nbreaks the rules. Trump is eager to establish trading ties regardless. While\nthis may seem somewhat small potatoes to US ears, the Irish media has been\nreporting developments regularly. On another note, in the\nall-politics-are-local view, Biden gets kudos for having Irish roots through\nhis mother\u2019s clan and a deep affection for the country; Trump gets love from\nthe folks in the vicinity of Doonbeg, not far from here in County Clare, where his\ngolf resort is a major employer. This is an often-neglected country with a long\nmemory that still recalls John F. Kennedy with affection and honors Bill\nClinton for his part in brokering the Good Friday Agreement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European leaders, it appears, view the election through\nsomewhat jaundiced eyes. I\u2019m certain they haven\u2019t forgotten that Trump called\nthe European Union a \u201cfoe\u201d in July, 2018. And so Europe has been learning these\nlast years to go it alone with a US that is no longer the strong ally it once\nwas. Some leaders are saying that won\u2019t substantially shift back again no\nmatter who is president. \u201cIn an increasingly brutal world,\u201d French Foreign\nMinister Jean-Yves Le Drian told French ambassadors to European countries\nrecently, \u201cEurope must finally fully emerge from its time of innocence and\nnaivete to forge its own destiny. Otherwise, others will decide its fate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nEuropean Council on Foreign Affairs took a continent-wide survey recently on\nthe US election, which concluded that even if Biden were elected, voters in\nFrance and Germany believe Europe should \u201cmaintain good relations with the US,\nbut prepare for disengagement,\u201d according to a CNN report. If Trump wins,\nvoters in Belgium, Sweden, Austria and Croatia also want Europe to prepare to\nunmoor its ties with the US. We Americans tend to be pretty insular thinkers.\nIf it doesn\u2019t affect us directly, we tend to pay less attention. Certainly\nthat\u2019s been true of me, much to my chagrin. But we are part of a world mosaic,\nlike it or not. I get the sense that America is shifting from \u2018the\u2019 superpower\nto \u2018a\u2019 power, with consequences that will be playing out on the world stage for\ndecades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One\nfinal note. I can not tell you how stressed I was come fall about ensuring that\nmy vote was counted \u2013 up and down the ticket from the Presidential race to the selectmen\u2019s\ncontest in my hometown. This was a new experience for me, a US citizen voting\noverseas. I little thought my small state of Maine was going to fall prey to\nsome of the early voting shenanigans taking place elsewhere in the country; I\nwas more concerned, frankly, that I would somehow misread instructions or\notherwise sabotage my ballot. Not a bit of it. The process could not have been\nmore clearcut and simple; and when I did have questions, I actually heard back\nnot from a faceless person but from the Secretary of State elections coordinator\nin charge of overseas balloting. As a reporter, I enjoyed dealing with state\nofficials, finding them uniformly prompt and responsive. She continued in that\ngreat tradition. Just as responsive was my town clerk, who sent me a local\nballot here in Ireland that I was able to return in plenty of time. All in all,\nI consider my vote counted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here I sit\nat 3am. My bowl of popcorn is gone, my tea is cold, my eyes are drooping and the\nWest Coast results don\u2019t come in for another hour. Egads! I have tried to hold\nmy political cards at least somewhat close to my chest in this blog, and I\ntherefore won\u2019t end on a soapbox. I do find this presidential election\nenormously consequential, and of course, I want my particular brand of old white\nman to win. But I have to tell you, I find great heart that so many Americans\nhave taken the opportunity to vote in this election. It is anticipated that\nupward of 150 million Americans will cast a ballot &#8212; higher than in any other\npresidential election. People want to be heard, and that\u2019s hugely important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK. I need\nsome sleep. I have to go traipsing through the North Clare countryside this\nafternoon in search of a sacred well. Perspective!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 1 a.m. Wednesday morning here in Ireland. I have a bowl of popcorn on the coffee table, Barry\u2019s Irish Breakfast Tea in my mug. My television is blaring CNN. I compulsively scan the Facebook feed on my cell phone. And I sit here, wrapped in a throw on a blustery early morning, totally awake and writing to you \u2013 who are all likely living in a much more civilized time zone. It is US election time in Ireland. 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