The One Nation voter is not coming home merely because the mainstream press has decided, once again, to ridicule Pauline. They are the numbers of a country living in permanent bad faith and asking its children to underwrite the transcendence. A society still keeping faith with facticity would insist that every serious act against a citizen carry a signature. This is why Alexandra’s One Nation voter stays away, and why the ridicule only entrenches them. Freedom that is real because it is bounded by facticity, by what we can actually afford, actually build, actually defend.