Namely, it upholds the traditional values of the middle class as the only true national values. It defends those values against the perceived corruption of decadent inherited wealth, and against the dangerous apathy and sloth that it sees as being the inevitable consequence of dependency on a welfare state. Therefore, producerists tend to be patriotic but at the same time intensely distrustful of the State, which they believe to be under the control of forces hostile to the nation.[11][need quotation to verify]