This nice and correct illumination of yours also describes cults. The sad inconsistency is that while the cult member believes he/she has been given freedom, it is actually handed over to the cult leader. His agency is stolen by a promise that the leader will handle all the hate that might come his way from him just being him. Chaplin best said it in his first talkie in 1940, the Great Dictator:

https://medium.com/liecatcher/dictator-lies-1363eb393d11

The best solution is pretty simple based on the cognitive neuroscience underlying this weakness in human thought and communication. Never vote for a divisive liar. That's not hard to do (and most people will be right about it). The leader is invariably a narcissistic schizoid psychopath: (Trump is just another abnormal personality.)

https://medium.com/liecatcher/quick-test-for-psychopaths-4839ccbcf74d

Geo. Washington captured this cult/party/faction leader as the greatest danger to democracy and actual liberty in his Farewell Address as his main theme:

https://medium.com/liecatcher/george-washingtons-case-for-convicting-donald-trump-6fa453652bbd

In terms of raising the next generation of kids, Geo. Washington's only contemporary biographer M.L. Weems, Rector of Mount Vernon Parish, explains that in his classic 1803 cherry tree story:

https://medium.com/liecatcher/the-elected-official-liar-test-4d4f0242b89b