As a Brit, the tension surrounding the fast-approaching presidential election is suffocating. You can’t walk down the hallway without spotting a couple “Make America Great Again” hats or bumping into someone with an #ImWithHer badge pinned to their backpack; it’s all anyone is talking about.

Harmful comments are carelessly thrown around by passionate and devoted supporters eager to prove the validity of their claims. Relationships are being destroyed over infuriating debates, and the animosity for the opposition along with the anxiety for the results is keeping everyone up at night.

Americans aren’t alone in being frantic about the rapidly approaching election. News has travelled, and people all over the world have formulated their own opinions about the nominees. Incalculable theories about the future of the United States, nay, the future of the world, have surfaced, most of them terrifying.

Whenever the election is brought up, thoughts like: ‘this election must a really long SNL skit’, ‘is this a sign of the rapture?’ and ‘how much are tickets to England?’ come to mind. One nominee is a sexual predator, I mean businessman turned inexperienced politician, and the other, a pathological liar who tells cringy jokes (and not the good kind either). Hillary Clinton’s perpetual deception, incessant hypocrisy and inability to properly use an email account accompanied by the never-ending anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-anyone-who-isn’t-a-rich-Republican narrative Donald Trump spews is sending everyone into a state of complete horror.

It would be an understatement to say Trump isn’t well-liked in the United Kingdom. A petition gaining 586, 933 signatures was created calling for the nominee to be banned from entering the United Kingdom, enough for the British Parliament to discuss and decide against the ban, unfortunately. This didn’t stop people from expressing their aversion toward the questionable politician. Golf balls with the Swastika have been thrown at Trump, questionable murals have been created and a British citizen even tried to assassinate the oh-so-popular GOP candidate; surely that proves his unpopularity.

As for Clinton, when people hear her name, the words emails, ‘lesser evil’ and Monica Lewinsky come to mind. She doesn’t receive as much attention from Brits as her controversial opponent does.

From a British point of view, this election is nothing short of an apocalyptic novel, and it’s clear Americans are in trouble. God help the United States.