Cold Standard
Here is the cold standard. Keep records. Publish facts. Name failures. Correct fast. Stop hiding behind the past. Stop treating criticism as betrayal. Stop asking citizens to be patient with things that insiders would never tolerate in their own lives. Stop using Aragalaya as a shrine while governing like it was only a ladder.
The glory was not yours to spend. That glory belongs to the people who made fear change direction. If AKD and the NPP want to protect it, they must do the boring, brutal work of government: discipline, honesty, delivery, correction, transparency and law. Not theatre. Not martyr poses. Not purity speeches. Not “trust us.” Sri Lanka has trusted too many people already. The next stage is not trust. It is proof. That is the line. Proof, or move.
