All of this is kind of true and I agree with it mostly. But I have still "faith" for some reasons. One of the reason 'among many others) is that these terrible people capable of anything should have shut down the internet a while ago in order to achieve their evil goals. But hey didn't because they came late and underestimated the thing. And more importantly they finally realized they the benefits for themselves was more important than the cons.

Something similar could really happen for Bitcoin. The dystopian scenario where all States go together full north Korea is not the most plausible one IMO I could come up with a lot more points advocating for a relatively quick victory for Bitcoin (in our lifetime), but my only advice for you to keep faith is to remind you to not be a high time preference guy.

Bitcoin is still incredibly new, and need much more time to become money obviously. Keep seeing the glass half full rather than half empty cause you are witnessing every single year tremendous improvements in the Bitcoin space. Now people have a choice, younger generation and more tech savvy generation are coming too, as you say we are not smarter just more freedom lovers, so many more people will eventually come to the same conclusion than us