Photo credit: Tim Donnelly, https://flic.kr/p/48Dq5c TL;DR version: So as to achieve happiness, prosperity, and progress in the year 2040. Longer version: Singapore's government today is too brittle to handle the complex challenges ahead, because it has been dominated by a single political party for too long. We need a strong alternative party that can take over and run the government when necessary. But building up such a party takes time; it doesn't happen over one election