I am expecting sooner than later we will begin to see an increase in rhetoric surrounding the morals of using Bitcoin, Dash, and other cryptocurrencies.
As it is today, we know that there is a strong push to make this technology appear as a danger, linking it to crime and overall people that don't want their identity to be known.
We heard it before when we were made aware that the NSA was spying on us, something along the lines of "if you haven't done anything wrong then you have nothing to fear."
Mark my words, I've been saying this since I created my Steemit account, the terrorism bogeyman will be used to try to keep people away from this technology over fear of ending up in some government blacklist.
We keep being told that we are being spied on but don't we know this already? Maybe the whole point is to deter us from acting all together, to get people to fear not being able to cover their tracks enough or having trouble over simply trying to cover their tracks.
If patriotism is reduced to supporting your team no matter what, then one could say is not very patriotic to support cryptocurrency adoption or use this tech, so long as the government doesn't endorse it.
But I would like to think that those who identify as patriots do so because they want to see their surroundings improve, not so they can say they're the best but so they can feel like the best because their environment allows for it.
I think a very good display of patriotism can be observed when we prioritize how good the nation works as opposed to how good it looks.
There are people that refuse to recognize their country has wronged in any way, there is no way to improve anything if everything is always fine.
Cryptocurrencies can offer a way to keep our representatives accountable, and that's why they will say anything to try keeping people away from it. Imagine hustling for 30-40 years to land a seat in government and do whatever you want thanks to the patriots that will support you no matter what...then all of the sudden you are told that not only you don't get to do what you want, but that we will keep a closer eye on what you are doing than what everyone else may be doing because you are a public servant.
Imagine working all those years, doing things you didn't want to, just so that you'd have some power over managing the books and right when you thought you bagged it, some youngsters come along telling you that an incorruptible computer network will be taking care of the books instead...I'd be screaming in terror too!
