"Mark my words here.  There is a really good chance coinbase is going to call 2x bitcoin and that will make it the new bitcoin..  It will be the coin new users buy.  Miners will move to the more expensive coin.  And core devs and nerds that understand the beautiful power of a true crypto wont matter."

The longest chain is real bitcoin. So, if 2x will be the longest - it will be Bitcoin with all necessary marks, nodes and other.
Only way to avoid this is to vote your hash powers. Oh, sorry i forgot that you don't have it. You're not miner. So, why you 're crying? You gave voting power to pools and they want 2x. You are guilty for this.
Bitcoin is PoW system, so you must have mining powers to do any decisions.