One Nation has pitched itself as the party of patriotism. The weight of this cannot be understated.

The electoral landscape is pegged out on both sides by major parties that support mass migration, multiculturalism, and globalist ideals. For decades, this dangerous policy suite has been held up as a morally superior position that aligns with international bodies and the notion that everyone is a global citizen, all cultures are equal, and we have to save the world from the trending apocalypse.

Even now, you have to twist the arms of conservative elites in the twilight of their careers if you want them to criticise the United Nations.

These individuals cannot divorce their Utopian world view, through which they drew enormous profit and international fame, from the terrible harm it has done to the country, its industries, and its people. Politicians and commentators belong to a tiny sliver of the population who benefited from the collapse of sovereignty. They walked from Parliament to the press gallery to the private offices of a foreign national body and never once glanced behind them.

Do not waste your time trying to convert them. They will never admit fault because doing so would tarnish their gold and ruin the one thing they cling to as people forget their names – moral superiority.

Australian leaders of this vintage did not enjoy representing a colony at the edge of the world. They wanted to make Australia bigger. More diverse. More metropolitan. More civilised. More modern. They were embarrassed by everything that made Australia the envy of the world.

We were cringe and camp. They were caviar and champagne.

Now, we have a government that either sneers at Australia’s colonial history or feels uncomfortable talking about it.

This political class refuses to protect our history, honour our past, or defend one of the most commendable legacies in human history.

The people and culture that built Australia from scratch, by hand, with almost nothing, and who died in the bush are being re-imagined as oppressors by a generation of left-wing academics who will never contribute anything to Australia except malice.

These attacks on our shared ancestral legacy have soured the political conversation.

People feel that politicians are deliberately replacing the Australian population with migrants who come from political environments that might consider entertaining socialist and dictatorial governance.

This is not limited, selective skilled migration which enriched the country.

Displacing the Australian people, whose ancestors arrived in chains or freely as settlers, creates the sort of anger that cannot be mediated by handouts.

Everyone who is 30 or older remembers what Australia used to be like before politicians played around with our future. We remember a nation with safe streets, unlocked doors, cities free of third-world protests, no terrorism, no machete gangs, no tide of rubbish on the ground or people spitting in the street…

Australians used to be able to work hard, buy a home, and raise a family without standing in line behind 50 people.

We used to be able to tell jokes, take the piss, have a drink without going broke, and go for a walk without police warning about predators on every corner.

Our internet used to be anonymous and our political opinions … protected.

Now, the civil right to complain has been turned into an actionable hate crime by a government too afraid of its own speech rules to name radical Islam as a danger. Meanwhile at least one Premier has told us that free speech has to give way to multiculturalism. What? When did we make that deal? The Enlightenment is crying.

Australians aren’t frustrated, they are furious.

No one asked them if they wanted to fundamentally change the greatest country in the world and turn it into a goldfish bowl of global conflict and religious tension where the most aggressive instincts frighten Canberra into obedience.

One Nation isn’t winning because they love to wave the Australian flag around.

People believe that One Nation has the courage to pass policy.

One Nation proposes the restoration of Australia and the exile of anyone and anything that threatens the peace and freedom of her citizens.

Countries can only be rescued by leaders who have no divided loyalties. People who serve one flag and one country.

This is the spirit that most closely resembles the original parties, on both sides, in Australian history.

They were all patriots.

It is not acceptable that in cities like Sydney, Australians with generational heritage have gone from 90 per cent in 1980 to less than 40 per cent today. A minority. In their own city. I do not care what you say, this is not multiculturalism, it is Australian culture being pushed aside. People are entitled to be upset.

If you listen to what voters are saying, they are sick of feeling like tourists in their own streets and strangers in their hometowns.

This is not racism. It is natural and sensible.

Australia is a culture. A beautiful, delicate, and endangered quirk of history that could be lost forever.

Flat White is written by Alexandra Marshall. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.