How To Destroy A Two-Party System
Sri Lanka has destroyed its two-party system or, more accurately, the two-party system has destroyed Sri Lanka and then itself. In the end, both parties merged into one corruption and the electorate finally threw out the whole disgusting mess. The whole country is nominally Red now, after being either Green or Blue since Independence. I don’t know what the future holds, but it’s a historic moment.
A Brief History
As a brief history, Sri Lanka started with one uniparty (literally the United National Party), until DS Senanayake fell off a horse and all hell broke loose. As DS Senanayake was falling off this horse, the uniparty split into a duoparty (Green and Blue), which it remained until 2010. @nuuuwan has a great illustration of the process.
As you can see, the duoparty persisted (with a small streak of Red) until 2005, when the feudal cucklord Ranil Wickremesinghe lost an election but refused to give up the Green Party to anyone else. Note that you never see the UNP running for President (the only office that really matters) again. It’s all NDF, and then nothing.
In 2015, Ranil destroyed the Blue party also. He convinced a defective to defect from the Blues, and that idiot actually won. They kicked out the natural leader…
