It's also: we've tried working with the traditional elites, in their own power sharing structures. The problem is that there's too much baggage, and if you're not willing to treat socially constructed maps of meaning - to borrow a phrase - as literally true, and not convenient or useful, then they'll throw your ass out. They're also incredibly sexist, and homophobic. We aren't. And this is all to say nothing of the corrupt liberal elites. So: if they won't willingly give, then we are forced to take; by building competitive alternatives to their rule. What we've built is popular, because we listen, partly, but we also know our values, and history. We know who we are, and we understand the interests of those power structures that stand opposed to us. So you're going to be uncomfortable: this conflict is the natural consequence of not being able to work together, and our movement being strong enough to stand on its own feet. When the day comes that we can cooperate and work together, it will be on our terms, and without eroding our values.