"Ideology-neutral" just means that Bitcoin's existence can support any number of ideologies that are at odds with the incumbent ideologies. That in itself makes it a threat to the incumbents. Therefore like all disruptive technologies, if Bitcoin succeeds it will do so in spite of the incumbents' best efforts to stop it, and not as a result of placating or cooperating with them, although some people will work that angle, and doing so may have some desirable short-term PR effect.

If Bitcoin doesn't ultimately succeed on its own merits, then in the end we're no worse off that if it hadn't existed... which is to say, we're still fucked.

See, I'm not shy about showing my ideology, and yes, Bitcoin is one of its vehicles.