AI is frying people’s brains.
Uber drivers have always been my barometer. In finance, in life, in politics, and in moments of global tension.
Two rides to the airport recently showed me just how bad it’s getting.
First driver was a Muslim guy. Very nice. We start talking about Iran. Then Israeli politics. I told him straight up I disagree with a lot of Israeli politics. He immediately relaxed and the conversation opened up.
Then we get to the Epstein files.
I tell him what I know. He nods along and says of course he knows everything about it.
Then he asks me if I know why the Iran war is happening.
I ask why….
He says because of the Epstein files.
I say alright, I understand the theory. People want attention diverted from it.
Then he goes further.
He says he is shocked I have not seen the real reason.
Trump slept with his daughter.
Yes. That is what he told me.
He knows Trump slept with his daughter and is bombing Iran to hide it because it was in the Epstein files.
I leaned forward and told him that is not real.
He said brother it is there. You just have not seen it.
I asked again to make sure he was serious.
He was dead serious.
His whole circle believes it.
Messed up right?
Second ride.
Turkish driver.
You all know I am Greek so that is always interesting.
I ask his name. We start laughing immediately. Good energy.
He says Istanbul. I say Constantinople. We go back and forth joking.
He says I look like Turkish actors. I tell him they look like me.
I tell him he is probably Greek and should check his DNA.
We even talked about how Western Turkey and Greece would probably be extremely similar societies if politics disappeared.
Great conversation.
Then politics comes up.
Again I say I disagree with a lot of Israeli politics. He gets comfortable.
Then Iran comes up.
He looks at me and says something that backs what I see on X.
He says Israel is leveled.
I say no it is not.
He says yes. Completely destroyed. Like Gaza. The media is hiding it.
I asked him multiple times because I thought maybe he meant heavy damage.
No.
He believes Israel is completely destroyed and the media is covering it up.
The videos he saw online convinced him.
Wild huh? Two separate drivers.
Two different backgrounds.
Two completely different lives.
Both absolutely certain about things that simply are not real.
AI images. Edited videos. Influencer propaganda.
It is creating parallel realities.
How do you question wars, governments, or geopolitics when millions of people are operating on fabricated information?
That is a serious problem.
Two parents. Same income. Same kid's age.
One opens a Trump Account before April 15.
One assumes it's only for newborns.
By retirement:
One has $2.7M.
One has $0.
Most parents don't know this account was built for kids already born.
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We keep pretending this is just another rough chapter in American politics, but deep down everyone knows that’s a lie. This isn’t disagreement anymore. This is disillusion. This is two completely different nations trapped inside the same borders, pretending we share values when we don’t. The Declaration of Independence was written when people finally admitted they could no longer coexist under a system that no longer represented them. That same feeling is back, whether people want to admit it or not.
We don’t argue over tax rates or road funding anymore. We argue over reality itself. Over biology. Over speech. Over history. Over whether borders matter. Over whether personal responsibility even exists. One side believes the country should be preserved, protected, and handed down stronger to the next generation. The other believes it should be dismantled, reprogrammed, and endlessly apologized for. You cannot reconcile those worldviews. You can only delay the inevitable by pretending compromise still exists.
Every election now feels like an existential threat, not a policy debate. Every law feels like an act of force instead of representation. People don’t feel governed anymore, they feel ruled. And when a large portion of the population feels that way for long enough, the social contract is already broken. You can wave flags and sing songs all you want, but unity doesn’t come from slogans. It comes from shared beliefs, and those are gone.
The truth nobody wants to say out loud is this: forcing people who fundamentally despise each other to live under one federal system is not unity. It’s pressure. And pressure always finds a release. History doesn’t care about feelings. Empires don’t fall because people stop loving them, they fall because they stop believing in them. When laws feel illegitimate and elections feel meaningless, separation stops sounding radical and starts sounding logical.
Maybe it’s not about hate. Maybe it’s about honesty. About admitting that the experiment has split into incompatible outcomes. About recognizing that peaceful separation is better than perpetual cultural warfare, political revenge cycles, and a federal government that half the country views as hostile. Coexistence requires mutual respect, and that left the room a long time ago.
You can call it the Declaration of Disillusion. You can call it dissolution. You can call it whatever you want. But pretending we can duct tape this together forever is the real fantasy. The bottom line is simple: we’re already divided in everything but name. The only question left is whether we keep lying to ourselves, or finally have the courage to admit it.