What if George Orwell was right after all?

The US 2024 presidential campaign is an epic dual between two fundamentally different political philosophies - one for the ages and not only because both candidates are somewhat long in the tooth.

Europe ushered in a period of democratic euphoria with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 two hundred years after the French Revolution; the US ended the age of democratic naivety on January 6th 2021.

America has not woken up yet to the real threat of unwittingly killing off democracy by embracing authoritarianism. What happens in America matters for the whole world - when the American Eagle dreams of "The Great Dictator" goose-stepping us into bloodshed and misery Charlie Chaplin-like, the world needs kindness and gentleness.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck, albeit a team of ducks with red hats, and confederate flags on their tails, carrying tiki torches and waddling in harmony to a distinctively Wagnerian tune.

It is time for everyday Americans to grasp the true meaning of the forthcoming elections with a detailed account steeped in philosophy and history from a uniquely European perspective so that the right choice can be made on November 5th, 2024.

We can prove Orwell wrong 40 years on.