Hi rat,
1. I don't know your experience, but privacy was overstated to me. I head the term "as private as cash" or "digital cash" on several occasions.
2. I suspect these political views aren't worthless to the founders themselves, nor are other fellow-believers indifferent to what their tool becomes.
3. "basement-dwelling fat nerds"?
4. I like to consider possible scenarios before investing in something, and see what others have thought about these. Fuck me, right? Speaking of which: 7. I looked through hundreds of messages here for discussion about these issues, do you have links?
1. privacy was never overstated; just loosely referred to. it's more private than a centralized system. want privacy? use cash. it will always have a purpose.
2. the founder(s) political opinions are worthless. what was the political affiliation of the guy who invented the wheel?
3. you generalize the whole community as a bunch of basement-dwelling fat nerds like mark karpeles, who want to privatize the profits - and socialize the losses.
4. you have made a bunch of assumptions about the future based on a bunch of what-ifs?
5. you stated that you have no dog in the fight - because you don't own any coins. maybe if you had some, and were invested in it, you would see things a bit diffrently.
6. it's not about bitcoin. if governments started to use a similar protocol for money monitoring - we the people could create our own.
7. your concerns are old, have been addressed before, and are becoming tiresome.
8. and you said it yourself - you're a noob.
and most importantly: the constitution of the US did not become a weapon of the establishment. by circumventing it - it has become useless.