The End of the Green Party

The Green Party was founded in October 2020 by MikeBodwin and Frank-Underwood, also with the support of Anhedonie, for the purpose of distancing themselves from the Demarcian National Party, which they saw as tainted by its complicated history.

The Green Party blossomed upon its founding, and quickly came to become a truly major party of Demarcian politics, reshaping the political landscape in previously unimaginable ways.

Now, however, a year and eight months after its inception, the Green Party, having long been withering, is finally coming to its end.

With the spectacular failure of MikeBodwin and the Green Party in the last two elections, the Green Party lost its privileged position in Demarcian politics, one that allowed it to be a kingmaker in nearly every aspect of the country's politics.

The only aspect that they could remain in that position was the presidential election - and in June 2022, they decided to use their kingmaker abilities one more time by delivering a sucker punch, a crushing blow, to then-President Brandin and the Social Democratic Party he's leading.

MikeBodwin is now bringing the Greens back into the DNP fold. This move feels almost solemn - if not the result of turbulence within MikeBodwin's own mind, and of careful calculations and political negotiations.

The end of an era.

The end of the unchallenged, unrivaled dominance of the SDP at every level of the country's politics.

An arrangement that the Green Party itself had abetted, by supporting the SDP's presidential candidates and propping up SDP governments after nearly every single election since the Green Party's creation.

What happens now to Demarcia, now that the Green Party will no longer be its own independent force?

What's clear is that the country is in for a final, decisive re-alignment, one that political analysts have been awaiting for a long, long time. It was obvious for several election cycles now that the SDP's dominance wouldn't last forever. It had finally begun to crack in the early days of 2022; now, in the summer of 2022, it has well and truly ended.

The country is now reverting to a two-party system, like the one before October 2020, with politics centered exclusively around the SDP and the DNP. The DNP will finally regain its strength and win elections again; the SDP will now have to genuinely fight to win votes again.

The DNP will, with the induction of MikeBodwin, be forced to tack back to the centre and to adopt a "big tent" approach. The DNP will keep in touch with both its liberal and its conservative traditions, and adopt the most appealing and most logical combination of the two.

The SDP, meanwhile, will have to do some quite difficult and painful soul-searching. Thanks to the peculiarities of the new two-party system, it is unlikely that a splinter will occur in the party. The SDP is determined to avoid a DNP-style split like from October 2020. However, unity of perspectives will be very hard to achieve.

Some in the party will push it towards a more left-wing direction, arguing that the party had lost its "radical, revolutionary character" and that it had come to be associated with a boring status quo.

Others in the party argue that radicalism is certainly not the answer, and that the SDP should adopt some of the DNP's ideas and tack to the centre, cutting down on state bureaucracy and passing policies encouraging entrepreneurship and a freer market.

Only time will tell how both the SDP and the DNP will react to the changing political circumstances in the country.

Giselle Lacroix,

Demarcian Inquirer.