Back in 2008, I was very hopeful when Obama was elected President. Watching from the UK it seemed like a miracle. My late husband was an American citizen and so all three of my kids have dual citizenship.

On the night of the election, I tucked my youngest son up in bed - he was 12. He said to me, "So, we've got a Black President." I don't remember what I said, something about how I hoped he'd be different. What caught my ear was the "we" as in "We've got a Black President." I think he was saying, "we" meaning everybody in the West. That was the way we thought then, only twelve years ago.

I knew that the presidency was going wrong when the first thing the new president did, facing an enormous banking failure, was to hire the exact people who had originally caused the problem. No bankers went to jail. Nobody was punished for their catastrophic greed and dishonesty.

I understand why he did it: it must have been extremely daunting for him to look at the scale of the fiscal hole. But he blinked. He backed the neoliberal concensus and the old money men.

What "we" need now is pretty much the opposite of Obama. We need someone who can bring all the non-voters out of their houses and get them to vote, to clear the bloated weevil out of the White House once and for all. Somebody who can speak fire and brimstone to power, someone who can fire up all the people the State ignores and bring them to vote.

Yes, America, this is your last chance. Joe Biden isn't ideal - but he's what you've got and after him you have a chance of voting in someone else.

There won't be any chance of voting in anybody better if Trump wins because I believe that if does, or even if he can claim his loss is fake, America will dissolve into civil war.

Or he'll crush his opponents and have what he wants, a fully fascist dictatorship.