The leftists are the ones whose policies stimulate a large and powerful government system that regulates everything.
You'll find that even amongst so called conservatives, you really had leftist wolves in sheepskin.
There aren't many places remaining on earth where you can do what ever the fuck you want without some government regulating you. Yet I expect that these cases you cited are most prevalent in the populated areas, which btw are typically more leftist even in Texas and Florida.
Also the authorities may have shut down that cult for other reasons and simply used the legal code about sanitary water supply as an excuse to put a stop to a cult. Texas is still reeling from the Waco incident.
Florida is not conservative. Trump barely won in FL. Florida is highly leftist. And regardless of the political leanings, even the Republicans want government to control everything. They want to regulate so that no one has to live next to some shanty home. Fucking spoiled rich fuck American asshurls who care more about their perfectly manicured green lawn than conservative values. Republicans want profit. It is a tourism state. Everybody has their hand in the pot trying to get some portion of those revenues. So yeah, the moralizing Republicans want more regulation so they can "clean up the image" of the place. Welcome to human civilization.
I do know for a fact (as of 2006), you could live off grid in rural West Texas. Nothing out there but rocks, cactus, and lizards.
Any way, this is a weak ass rebuttal to evil of the leftist ideology (a religion).