Short answer: They can’t

Absolutely nobody in the world thinks any government has handled the pandemic well (other than a sliver of  Zoom-class apparatchiks who were largely unaffected by two years of lockdowns) and corporate media is fast becoming universally reviled.

Secondly, against this backdrop of wholesale loss of credibility and institutional bankruptcy, those in power are getting desperate and increasingly resort to weaponizing the rails of society itself against normal citizens, everywhere:

Do we think China is starting to have any second thoughts about the carpe diem they might have been tempted by?

I gotta admit.  I have always been afraid that Hyperbitcoinization would be accompanied by geopolitical upheaval and possibly war.

Chicken?  Egg?

It's not turning out really how I had expected, really.

stupid meat-husk

I still can't believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet. And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I was wrong on crypto's fundamental necessity in Western democracies.