I describe what we are.
To do otherwise is to shrink from the responsibility of first recognizing the problem before you can apply the proper structure and institution to fix it.
Ultimate freedom is flawed because we are flawed.
To become enlightened we must be indoctrinated towards a behavior that is better than our natural behavior. Americans had accidentally aimed towards that, once upon a time. But we failed to recognize greatness is an effort of education and is not inherent. Thus we fell from grace and arrived at today's American politics, and worse. We lost what made us great by thinking too highly of ourselves and too little of our institutions. Without that recognition we failed to safe guard them. We failed to educate and keep people on the path towards doing better.
For our hubris our nation will fall, like all the others before it.
I have suggested that you describe us as you know us to be. I suggest also that to assume that what you know us to be is the same as what we can become is based on assumptions not facts. To indoctrinate is to imprison. To become enlightened is to lose bad behaviors not acquire good ones. We have and everything else has always been perfect. Our problem is that we were taught otherwise, that we are worthless. That is what you are seeing. It is the ego that wants to improve that. The ego always plays that trick. We don't need to be better. We need to stop believing we are worthless. The way out is to remember how we suffered. You can explain why that is the way but you can't make then do it.
That is also the purpose of religion, to step right over all that pain via faith. Some love God so much that all traces of self disappear and only love is.
There is a difference between indoctrination and the making of knowledge available. Only those who want it will see it for what it is but that's better than nothing.
Naturally self realization, or the desire to seek it can be helped along by people skilled in that task. I am not such a one.