Your musings have lots to unpack here.

Chapter 6 talks about how we move from HERE to THERE. And it does not involve an armed revolution.

And the TDG has to be built outside the current political process. TDGers will development their skills for TDG governance while getting more credibility from the common people. More people will join this movement.

In the meantime, the current system is still needed to keep the order so the TDG can be built.

But even if that order fails, the TDG can be built.