here , democracy is gone , as inevitably it would be with the two polarized and intransigent sides this large and in continual gridlock , and corruption as rampant as it is ( one side democratically elected with the guise , the guile , of false populist promises but legitimately garnering the will of the people , and the other the artifice of a more professional elite , chugging and shunting the train into the 21st century with a new engine , but corrupt and incapable of winning enough parliamentary seats for anything but a court mandated premiership , and this imbroglio , until now , ever tilting the country closer into that oblivion of becoming a failed state ) .