Government has created far more monopolies, and oligopolies, than it has prevented. If government were not around to protect us from ourselves we would have to take responsibility for our own investing and do some due diligence before we invested our money. As it is, we are all invested in a rigged system that must be artificially propped up by government. We all depend on a government that is $18 trillion in debt and a Fed that prints money at will, but then cling to the false notion that we'd be in a REAL bind if it weren't for government that protects us from the capitalists.
When the system collapses, as it ultimately must, people will wake up to the fact that government corruption is far, far worse than capitalist corruption could ever be. Capitalists are at least constrained by free market forces. Government is practically unconstrained. Given how much power it has, I wouldn't bet against it, but I wouldn't be completely invested with it, either. I'd hoard some assets, cling to my guns and my religion, and sleep better knowing I have at least some sovereignty to carry me through the decline of the nanny state.