Friedman suffers from the same problem all idealist suffer. That is they believe that because something should be a certain way, that we should disregard the facts that it is not so. According to his rather obscure rational, a woman in an abusive relationship should leave her spouse, (after all it just makes sense) and hence we should just ignore the consequences of this fact in society. Similarly many if not most ANC members suffer from the same levels of intimidation and abuse and yet they still retain their allegiance to the abusers, this is a well established scientific fact in psychological circles. In fact even if there is a secret ballot many in the ANC may still feel so intimidated that they will not vote according to their conscience. This is inherent in the human condition and is ignored at our peril. Hence being able to vote in secret will to some extent but not entirely mitigate against this psychological disorder, in the same way that a helping hand to abused person will.