It’s not gold or fiat I fear, it’s government infringement of individual rights and intervention in the economy by force.
An individual should be free to decide what they use for exchange, and perhaps someone will be willing to trade with them. Of course in this scenario, things such as gold, Bitcoin, or a disciplined fiat may well work.
No, the government monopoly on currency (via the FED in the US) must end, an ideological Marxist situation.