Bitcoin's maximum (and future) audience is 100% of world's GDP, so that governments can no longer steal value through inflation (FRB and QE). So far it isn't anywhere near that level yet.
Where you see governments 'stealing value', the rest of us see sensible monetary policy.
God save us from idiots who would hand said policy to a handful of software engineers and a self-interested mining cartel.
And the credit crisis was good because it flooded the market with cheap credit... That did what, exactly?
God saves us from the real idiots - those that think they have all the answers, instead of humbly accepting how little they know, about what they imagine they can design
(Those idiots are unfortunately those that seem to be good at the game of: "heads i win, tails others lose"