You might not like religion but a lot of people in Texas do.

I like Crockett, but all I've heard about her from anyone who isn't a Democrat is that they think she's a clown show (their words; not mine).

There are several people who I know that are moderate Republicans or Independents who like Talarico.

Freedom really is “reason’s child” in the sense that any meaningful liberty presupposes agents who can distinguish fact from fantasy, argument from propaganda, and consent from manipulation. Once that rational capacity is systematically dulled or corrupted, people can still say the word “freedom,” but they no longer track what it means in practice.
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In that vacuum, "delusion rules,” and delusion almost never floats free; it quickly hardens into structures of control—censorship, coerced unanimity, ritualized slogans, or curated realities that make dissent literally unthinkable to most.

That’s why actual freedoms “vanish in application” long before they vanish on paper; constitutions, charters, and rights-talk can continue while, on the ground, people’s concrete options shrink to a narrow script written by those running the delusional story.

Oppression really is “delusion’s child”: it rests on falsehoods about who counts as fully human, what threats supposedly justify emergency powers, or what great danger requires permanent exception. Strip away those shared hallucinations and most oppressive structures look as naked and absurd as they are cruel.

That is what we see today.

Mythology reveals and informs.
I adore it.

Religion obscures and deceives.
I abhor it.

As with all things, definitions of terms define narratives.

I and mine are the only members of our families that escaped the Abrahamic blood cult of 'Christ' in which we were inculcated from the day of our birth.

All the rest are firmly embroiled within the delusional maelstrom from which we escaped.

They're all Y'all Qaeda Nat-Cs.

Reason is our 'god'.
Doubt is our 'savior'.