"Empowering people" is such a bullshit phrase, and it's not something Satoshi intended to do because he wasn't an ideologue. He was a builder.

He simply wanted to give people direct control over their money by eliminating the need for intermediaries. He succeeded by solving the double-spending problem.

Unfortunately, he wasn't able to solve the problem of double standards. You indirectly criticize statists for their adherence to flags, which is right, but you yourself are adhering to another set of flags. Same shit.

There's nothing wrong with Bitcoin, the people involved with it, or the perception of it. The problem is just misguided, myopic pseudo-morality, but I fear Bitcoin won’t fix that in the short term.