Sri Lankan here. As of last year, the majority of Sri Lankans voted to send home the two historically establishment parties (who ran the country to the ground) and elected a third party into power with a 2/3rds majority in parliament and the presidency (an unprecedented upset). As someone who has viewed the US system favourably since childhood, it pains me to say that at present, Sri Lanka is probably marginally better than the US in terms of freedom of speech and independence of insitutions. Also painful is the fact that a such a third party upset is structurally impossible in the US. Here's wishing you all the best.