If bitcoin fails to get those "morons" on board bitcoin will not be used or accepted by almost anyone and thus become valueless and useless.
No, it won't. You see, Bitcoin has utility beyond "daily spending". I don't really understand why that is so hard for you to comprehend.
i can't think of anything bitcoin does better than fiat besides buying drugs on silkroad.
anything else i can do more easily with a credit card.
Well, you aren't thinking hard enough.
It's an asset that is solely under the control of the private key holder.
If you can't see the ramifications of that, then perhaps Bitcoin isn't for you.
its a bunch of binary data replicated worldwide.
bitcoin is not an asset if no one uses it as a currency.
The 'replicated worldwide' is exactly what give BTC it's value to me.
If the data is replicated only among organizations which can be pressured by the government and/or mis-use the intelligence data coming off the system (e.g., Google, Facebook, etc) or used in significant quantities by organizations who can be pressured to damage fungibility (e.g., Overstock, TigerDirect, etc) then I consider this a viable attack surface and a legitimate threat to the value I see in Bitcoin.
This is no idle conjecture or threat in my case. It has been a very real factor in my decision making processes in deciding how to draw down my hoard. (There are other factors also, to be fair. Among them, I obtained my hoard in the first place intending to re-distribute it when there was less of an excess BTC liquidity problem. At a profit, of course, but also as a legitimate contribution to the ecosystem.)
