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In the last text, we saw that the State, while aiming at the well-being of its citizens, can do good even to foreign citizens. An example of this is the Russian State, which, by financing its press abroad, allows Western Europeans and North Americans to have access to information and opinions that are different from those published by the profit-oriented media outlets in their countries. Despite all the liberal propaganda, one thing is certain: if something aims at profit, it does not aim at the common good. For this very reason, a liberal State, like the U.S., does not tend to have the same effects as a normal State.

Does the U.S. State aim at the common good of its citizens? Looking at health, education and housing, we can say no: the purpose of the U.S. State is to enrich the owners of capital. In the health sector, Luigi Mangione shed a renewed light on the fact that insurance companies make huge profits by denying treatment to their policyholders. His manifesto, which is very rational, was only published by an independent journalist; and Michael Moore, cited as a reference, reported having been sought out by the media to condemn homicides. His text on the subject, which was another manifesto, was also hidden by the press.

In higher education, Brazil saw, with the PT governments, the arrival of U.S. conglomerates: they buy all the private colleges, pay starvation wages to professors and charge the government tuition fees, putting the poor in debt, who in the end receive an irrelevant diploma, due to the poor quality of the course. Basic education in U.S., whether public or private, is also not the best, and the lack of general knowledge of North Americans is notorious. Another thing we saw in movies – North Americans paying mortgages because they do not own their house – became a national scourge, with the copying of the U.S. models for financing public housing.

Research itself is also geared towards corporate interests. Laboratories take public money and create patented medicines, which are then sold to the State for use on citizens. The safety and efficacy of such drugs is attested by regulatory agencies known for their “revolving door,” due to the rotation between public and private positions occupied by the same individuals. It is worth remembering that the opioid addiction epidemic is the fault of Purdue Pharma and the FDA.

The U.S. elites can leave their fellow citizens in ignorance, since skilled jobs can be filled by Asian immigrants. As for unskilled workers, they can die due to lack of medical care or drug addiction, for a multitude from third world, especially from Spanish America, supplies the needs of this type of labor. In the U.S., the lives of citizens are disposable because they are easily replaceable by foreingers.

Just like men, States have a moral personality and must be judged according to their past actions. If the U.S. treats its citizens this way, why should we believe that they treat citizens from abroad any better? It is no wonder, then, that anti-State discourse is so common in the United States, whether on the left (with anarchism) or on the right (with anarcho-capitalism). The idea that alternative communities need to be created to escape the central State is as old as the English colonies, populated by sectarian Protestants who wanted to create their own communities independent of the Anglicans. Given this perspective, it is natural that the State is seen as a “necessary evil” – and if people already think of the State as evil, it is even more natural that the State they founded is in fact evil.

But lest it all be a vale of tears, we cannot fail to point out that the revolution in information technology and communication – from the invention of the Internet and GPS to search engines and social networks – owes much to U.S. military technology and intelligence. This peculiar State, which does not care about the well-being of its citizens, does care about its military power. This is certainly a different purpose than private profit, and that is why the United States has made such a contribution to human skills and knowledge.