I would take this one step further: Maybe governments aren't the problem, and have never been. They are easy targets, of course, and cursing them pleases the us-versus-them crowds, but the real problem is and always has been the morals and culture of the majority. Pointing at governments is easy, looking at ourselves is quite a bit harder. In the western world, we are all governed by corporations anyway, and they only survive by the grace of us voters, consumers and employees.