Ah, the once-great American empire. Hard to believe now, in 2124, that they were ever on top of the world, right? But it seems that history has a funny way of remembering them not for their innovation, power, or culture, but for the moment that everything crumbled. You guessed it, the day they decided to elect a Black woman as president. Yep, turns out, in the collective memory, that’s where things went from bad to apocalyptic. It wasn’t the wars, the economic instability, or the rise of other global powers. No, no—it’s forever etched in history that electing a Black woman was the straw that broke the superpower’s back.
Before that fateful election in the 2020s, America was still clinging to its place at the top. Sure, it had its issues—crippling debt, a declining middle class, and endless foreign entanglements—but hey, they had the biggest military, the loudest cultural influence, and enough arrogance to assume they’d never fall. But then, they went and did something unthinkable. In 2024, they elected a Black woman as their president. The rest of the world, of course, was horrified. Not because she was Black or a woman—although that definitely made headlines in patriarchal dictatorships—but because America, in their infinite wisdom, just couldn’t seem to maintain a coherent foreign policy after that.
By 2025, it became apparent that the new leadership was no match for the geopolitical chessboard. China and Russia, sensing weakness, doubled down on their global influence campaigns, pushing America out of its spheres of influence. The rest of the world wasn’t intimidated anymore. What could the U.S. do? Lecture them on “diversity”? Send them sternly worded emails about representation? Other superpowers took full advantage of the fact that the U.S. government seemed more interested in winning social battles than global ones. America quickly found out that winning elections based on identity politics doesn’t translate well on the world stage.
Of course, it didn’t help that at home, the population was more divided than ever. Those who weren’t celebrating the “historic” presidency were busy blaming everything that went wrong on her. The economy collapsed (again), endless cultural wars erupted, and global respect for the U.S. tanked. And the scapegoat? Why, the president, of course! After all, it’s a lot easier to blame one person—especially a Black woman—for the collapse of a centuries-old empire than to address the systemic rot that had been growing for decades. Did the fact that she was president during America’s downfall really have anything to do with it? Probably not. But you better believe she was blamed for it anyway.
And here we are, a hundred years later, in a world where no one talks about American innovation or freedom. Nope. Instead, we remember them as the empire that tanked itself, and historians still love to point out the symbolism of how a Black woman’s election supposedly “sealed their fate.” It’s as though, in the end, America’s ultimate undoing wasn’t its imperial overreach or economic blunders—it was that their crumbling self-image couldn’t handle the pressure of their own diversity experiment. Talk about irony.
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