One thing we have going for us though is greed. If there is money to be made holding your wealth in Bitcoin then people will gravitate toward that option.
Had the exact same thought last night. If a new form of sound money is created from nothing, the potential for the largest transfer of wealth in possibility humanity's history will be so tremendous that human greed will have the strongest influence of all. It would only take a few senators on the right committees aligned to Bitcoin's speculative waves, to gum up state attempts to block Bitcoin. They would position themselves as the good guys, but it would really just be greed.
Bitcoin is an auto-immune virus that diseases the incentive structure of the state. Gold couldn't do this, because it is too difficult to hold and transport gold without people finding out you have it. Once higher-ups figure out how to covertly hold bitcoins, the incentive structure disintegrates from the inside out.