There are two major personality types, on a gradient.
There are Sensors who understand the world through their senses, what they can touch, see, taste, etc. They tend to strongly prefer non-abstract, concrete language, so they would prefer calling Bitcoin "digital gold." Peer to peer e-cash system won't make sense to them because they can't see it or touch it.
Then there are Intuitives who are far more comfortable with the abstract and conceptual dimension and language along those lines. A description of Bitcoin as "Peer to peer e-cash" rapidly makes sense to them even though it's not a system that anyone can touch or see in a physical domain.
This is why gold bugs like Peter Schiff struggle so much with Bitcoin. Peter Schiff's unchangeable psychological temperament is Sensor. Since they can't touch Bitcoin, but they can touch gold, and they would gravitate towards gold, since it works kinesthetically in the moment, spacially.
The major distinction between Bitcoiners and goldbugs is the domain of their psyche's that they trust and are more sensitive to, whether Sensory, or Intuitive.
So if the government says Bitcoin is digital gold, even though we know that's not fundamentally true, try to cut them some slack because they may be doing their best to communicate in a way that Sensors are more familiar and comfortable with that will help them get on board.