It's greedy, dollar-minded thinking like this that messes up Bitcoin

I hope all hedge funds, dollar investors, daytraders, stock brokers, and other scum from the old monetary system lose a SHITLOAD of money. So the only people remaining in Bitcoin are there because they understand and appreciate the ideology behind Bitcoin.
Here's the thing: you shouldn't see Bitcoin as a way to make dollars. You should see Bitcoin as a way to DESTROY the dollar.
If you fail to get larger investors into BTC, the volume and liquidity will remain anemic and the project won't go anywhere. Eventually, if big money enters the market, you will probably see leveraged trading accounts, hedges balancing between precious metals and btc, ETF's, small banks accepting conversions/issuing btc atms etc. Right now, if you look at the volume of any currency base besides BTC/USD, its pretty sad and that won't improve with a bunch of people buying and holding or purchasing little (in the grand scope of things) stuff online. If you get some VC's with some cash to burn in a new concept like bitcoin -watch it explode (it will probably make all home miners a thing of the past, but like gold, i don't see a whole lot of pan-sifters in the local river these days). When a market goes up and down $50 a day, you're dreaming if you don't think people start to see dollar signs. Even the most independent thinking, anti-establishment, anti-centralization thinking person has to eat and probably dislikes his or her day job. Not to mention, by the laws of supply and demand, if the market dynamics stay exactly the same as it is now, with little to no institutional investors, yet the monetary base continues to expand, where's all this price strength coming from? I can't buy gas or a sandwich with it yet so you're going to need some heavy hands to inject this thing with the juice needed for the next leg up in the absence of broad consumer acceptance on such a short timeframe.