How can HODLing/owning BTC weaken existing political strongholds? Could you explain? You touch on an interesting topic and it would be nice if you develop it better.
More useful can be from the use of bitcoin, which is, in fact, the first cypherpunks and conceived. After all, they conceived it as a digital means of payment, and not a means for investment. Their protest was to switch to an alternative currency from the traditional monetary system. So it turns out that the more people will use BTC, the stronger this revolutionary movement will be and the more the very strongholds of which you speak will be weakened.
On the one hand, of course, bitcoin is designed for us to use it, and most of us are interested in this. This is important and necessary. On the other hand, the mempool has grown in recent days, and it shows, I think, that bitcoin is already in active use, and technically there is not much room for even more use growth at the moment.
If we encourage people to use it more often, we will simply face more competition for block space and a higher entry threshold for new participants interested in bitcoin. Not everyone knows about LN.