Over the years people have been expressing their frustration with governments around the world as they seem out of touch with the average Jane and Joe. There is a lot of discussions about how to solve the problem with the greed, corruption, massive debt, continual war, pollution, trade agreements and even pedophilia that has gone rampant in the halls of power.

This weeks Debate Forum question: Do we continue to work towards cleaning up existing government, financial and economic institutions, revolt or do we explore peaceful self-governance as an alternative? How do you see this unfolding?

The rules of this debate:

Keep comments on topic.
No personal attacks, name calling or yelling.
Be respectful, thoughtful and articulate with your thoughts and views.
Participants can ask questions but lets limit the discussion threads to three deep. That means the individual can respond to the question posed and then the thread must stop.
The post with the highest vote count will win the debate. Highest value will not be used to determine the winner but will naturally reward commenters who make excellent points. That way everyone's vote counts the same when it comes to the final prize. I will break any ties.
Debate deadline is 10pm MST December 2, 2017. At which point I will then tabulate the results and send the prize to the winner.
Curators are encourage to vote as well, giving higher percentage upvotes for well thought out and written responses, lower or no vote for anybody who breaks the rules or fails to articulate their position.
Winner will receive all the SBD that I receive from this post, complements of the curators who are participating and partially sponsored by @FullTimeGeek.
I am the moderator and as such I disqualify myself from winning. My decisions are final and I will keep any steem this post generates. I will not tolerate covert or overt violence in this debate. Please keep it respectful and on topic.

The goal of this contest is to engage the readers with thoughtful debate and to explore ideas that are not commonly made available to the average Jane and Joe. I also want to see if this is a good way to get low steem users participating and being rewarded with steem to help them build influence on this platform. Readers are reminded that all comments are the opinions of those who are posting and as such it is your responsibility to do your own research and make up your own mind on these topics. There is no write or wrong answer. Let us debate this issue with respect, honour, dignity, heart and intelligence.

1960 debate between Nixon and JFK. (public domain)