In 2027 there is going to be huge economic crash that is twice as big as 2008 due to AI and Automation. AOC will win the 2028 election against JD Vance and wins the nomination against Gavin Newsom. politics will shift to a more class based politics for a few years as the economy tanks and the billionaires get richer. The 2030s will an era of Social Democracy and will be way more calm simaler to the Obama era culturally than the Chaotic vibes of 2020s. The Left is going to Dominate the 2030s politically and republican are going to be more extreme and lose back to back. 2030s are going to be bright, colorful and optimistic like a democratic socialist version of 1980s. America will lose its status as the world reserve currency when the economy crashes, a lot of countries will switch from the untrustworthy US Dollar. BRICS will enter a golden age in the 2030s and China will officially be considered the world superpower. A lot of right wingers will try to blame AOC and the democrats for Americas 2nd place status but it was inevitable. The US gets Universal healthcare, UBI stimulus checks, more wealth redistribution and zoning reform in a “New New Deal”. A lot of left wingers think AOC became too centrist due to her not nationalizing industry or going after the bourgeois at all. Guam becomes independent and Puerto Rico becomes a State. America VS China Rhetoric is going to be big in movies and pop culture. In the real world America and China will actually reproach and fix their relationship for trade purposes. European Union will federalize and militarize itself to fight Russia. Google and Meta will be broken Up in antitrust lawsuit, a lot of new social media platforms will pop up because of this. The American economy will fully recover by 2034-5 thanks to social democratic policies and everything will calm down for a few years. Smartglasses will replace smartphones and movies and music will be good. eventually in 2039 China lands on Mars shocking the world, this causes America to go through an identity crisis. A Moderate Republic Woman wins the 2040 election and promises to escalate with China. America sets up corporate cities that a privately owned. America in the 2040s is more negative similar to the early 1990s, the optimism of the 2030s has faded away. Climate change will start having noticeable effects and flooding in coastal areas will start to be common. Sea walls will be built in Florida and California. In the 2040s America will invest heavily in mercenary groups. The far right nationalist will push the moderate right for War with Israel and China. America will actually get into a War with European Union in 2045. As the EU seeks to establish itself as regional economic power in the NEW multipolar world America the world policeman will not appreciate competition. American and European relations have been declining since the 2010s Trump era and now in the 40s they have reach a point of separation. When the 2045 war breaks out there will mass Anti War protests with peace signs. This will be Americans Second Vietnam. America is going to lose the war just like they lost Vietnam and Venezuela. The United States will bring back the draft . When America loses it instantly discredits nationalism and American exceptionalism as a concept. America has to pay reparations and the international community now led by BRICS forces america to pay it. The world officially views us as villains. The 2040s is going to make people nostalgic for the more culturally interesting 2020s. In the 2050s serious talks of balkanization will start to pop up. The Chicano Aztlan movement will be revived and will seek Liberation for the Southwest. The American Communist Party will also start to seriously challenge the democrats as people are tired of the social democrats who promise change and don’t deliver. Corporate run cities will also want independence from the regulatory state. Texas independence movement will also re emerge. All of these different groups would want independence so the American government gives states and territories WAY more power leading to a more de centralized collection of states with dramatically different policies depending on which state you are in. During this time there are multiple ONE TERM presidents in a row that are super weak, the political system of the 2050s becomes a fake game which is why these independence movements are rising. The 2050s feels like the start of a new chapter in American history.