It’s easy to not see things when your livelihood depends on not seeing them.

yes... non-surveilled money transactions ALLOWS for all these drug trades and money laundering and guns blah-blah, so we shouldn't have it.

Unlike, I dunno kitchen knives, there's no downside since regular people don't suffer from a ban on cash (whereas they would from banned knives or banning cars etc).

How's that for a strongman?

There is no reasoning. That's the genius of socialists. They get to say whatever they feel will work best for the circumstances. I expect that eventually they'll settle on the conclusion not that Bitcoin itself is bad, but that only government agencies should be allowed to use it.

This is what my wife says every time I mention someone using this line of argument. Its lazy and dumb to anyone that is thinking outside of the subject area. I think it boils down to the fact that people so close to something often can't remove the lens that cloud their thinking.