Writing this from basically a 3rd world country, Serbia, which you might have heard of in context of a series of armed conflicts, civil wars and highly corrupt

Writing this from basically a 3rd world country, Serbia, which you might have heard of in context of a series of armed conflicts, civil wars and highly corrupt governments (current one being orders of magnitude worse)...Even after all that, and civil infrastructure and industry having been bombed back 50 years into the past (by NATO), we still have free high quality education and free healthcare...Those are simply the basic functions of a society - a lot can not function and be in a bad shape, but if you don't have these - what do you have from a government? How the US managed to get it perverted to this extent, is beyond me...