Bitcoin is for the fiat politicians in the same way that the sun is for snow men.
We can pretend that they're the corrupt ones, closer to the printers, and that we're the victims, but at the end of the day systemic corruption corrupts everything. Got a mortgage, car loan, or credit card? Congrats; you've been the cause of the printing of at least M2 money supply.
Money printing does indeed stem back to an initial cause of wars being fought that nations didn't have gold to pay for. But it's not always been a matter of wars of aggression. The American Civil War famously involved Salmon P. Chase, Treasury secretary under Lincoln, borrowing ALL of the nation's gold to pay for the war effort, withdrawing it from the banking system, and putting the money on its first purely fiat standard (the Greenback). As a result (and with the help of one of our oldest allies, the Russians), the US managed to counter the British backed color revolution (which those in the know often term America's third revolution, after 1776 and 1812).
We can talk about the the horrors this caused from the destruction of money, and it seems they did at least try to restore order in the decades that followed, knowing that it was a bit like gnawing off your own arm to escape a deadly situation. But I'd not say that those who entered such an arrangement were inherently evil men.
WWI was far less wholesome, though arguably it was the turbulence in the wake of the Greenback's saga and the restoration of hard money (when debt repayment became a bit like going to the casino as to whether you were getting paid back much less or more more value than you were owed, depending on the date) which primed the country to accept the trojan horse that was the Federal Reserve act under Britain's proxy (and the first Democrat since the war) Woodrow Wilson.
Wounds fester, and need to be cauterized. Whether they're caused by malice, folly, or the surgeon's blade. The fiat politicians are just the cells within the system that happen to be close to the wound, and are thus the most susceptible to becoming gangrenous. They're where the statesmen used to be, before the wound of fiat changed the rules of the game.