Legal tender doesn't mean that you are forced to use that said currency. It just means that it isn't illegal to use the same and said currency will be accepted and taxed, which goes to the government for the betterment of the public(if used correctly).
As that thread repeated, over and over,
"legal tender" is not the same as "legal".
The word, "legal tender" has a very specific meaning derived from the US Constitution, and it absolutely means
forcing people to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment
even if they don't want to accept Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is unsuitable as a mainstream means of payment because transactions can take 30 minutes and cost 30 dollars. This is not a conspiracy by "the government", it's a simple technical limitation of the blockchain architecture and it's not going to be solved. Bitcoin works just fine for what people
actually use it for, which is a speculation instrument.
Using the government to force Bitcoin down people's throats won't accomplish anything except making people hate Bitcoin. (And why especially should Bitcoin have this special status? Why not Ethereum? Why not Dogecoin? Why not Haypenny currencies?).
Regarding the OP's topic. Inflation isn't bad for the economy up to a point, stagnation or deflation could honestly be much worse. [...]
I made the same point above as well: deflation is far, far more dangerous than inflation. No country in the world has based their economy on a static commodity in the last 100 years for good reason. If your primary currency appreciates in value, then you are incentivized to not spend it, which contracts the economy, which deflates it even further, and so on into a depression.