FAI and related.
What is the delusion here?
Inability to do math.
What is the delusion here? Do you mean people convincing themselves that they can't do math?
Failures around believing the state of the world is good
This seems too subjective to label a delusion.
Believing that politics is the best way to influence the world.
What do you mean by best and by influence?
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