What stops government saying "never mind your sound money game, allow me to introduce you to the game we're actually playing..."
In Bitcoin you "vote" for what will happen to your own money, not the money of others. This is the big difference, and the reason why the state can not co-opt it.
Did they not teach you in Political Economics 101 that
democracy and voting is power vacuum, thus a winner-take-all paradigm?
Will you continue to eat the democracy lie for breakfast that the intellectuals have been feeding you ever since you stopped accepting a mirror in exchange for your ancestral land?
Bitcoin does what the economic majority want, the only question in my mind is does the economic majority want to adopt the immutable rules of Bitcoin, or does the economic majority want to tweak the rules by manipulating politics.
Does the ecomonic majority want permissionless, borderless bitcoin or something else?
Does a cow not want to eat grass? Does a human not want to urinate and shit?
Some things are immutable because otherwise they can't exist without. The elite exist because they enslave those of you who wish to be enslaved because you eat delusion every day. Without that paradigm, they can not exist.
Larry Summers and the financial elite can't give up their power and join a power-sharing arrangement in a decentralized Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is a power vacuum that is winner-take-all by whoever will monopolize the mining and users.
Until we make crypto-currency technically impossible to monopolize, then we've given them no choice but to do what they do best.
Bitcoin's design can't resist monopolization. Impossible. Do I need to repeat all the detailed reasons again?
That power elite conspire to capture power vacuums is fact, not theory. Conspiracy theory is a term used by people who wish to live in a fantasy nirvana of democracy, voting, equality, human rights, etc. (it doesn't exist, the world is run by a Club and you ain't in it). All lies pitched to you by those whose role is to capture the power vacuum you've collectively laid out for them.