And so we wait. We wait for a country to make a decision for the world; we wait for a people we have increasingly less trust in to decide the fate of us all. We hold our breaths, hoping that the redemption, the miracle, we saw four years ago will hold true, fearing our friends might slip back into darkness, and the simplistic politics of selfishness, jingoism and intellectual binaries will return. The world’s many are powerless to Americas few, knowing that a republican government would doom us all but lacking any power to intervene. We cannot dictate to our American friends – we cannot tell them how to vote; we can only sit and wait, fearing that they will abandon hope to greed and lies, and elect a madman who will doom us all. And so, tonight, we wait.