Opinion: Why current constitution is setting us up for more failure

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This has been the best election year yet. It has been painfully long, legally confusing and financially draining. It has fed our national anxiety like none of the five elections before it. But that is exactly why it is the best election period we have ever had. And here is why.

Despite the pointless drama it has generated, this 2017 electoral experience serves to cure us from a case of chronic political delusion. While the 2007 election woke us to the realities of our problematic politics of ethnicity, these elections have gone a step further. They reveal three things with clarity.