Continuums, political variety

We met a young woman who is running against a longtime politician, a man who's basically been a lifer Dem for this state, and whom many people think isn't effective, other than his solid voting in D.C. This woman wants to see a completely non-partisan system emerge. I'm still mulling over what I think of this. I suppose it could be considered an ideal, in that everyone of every stripe would have a voice, but the works get gummed up badly enough currently with a two party system. A scene from Orhan Pamuk's novel "Snow" come to mind, in which representatives of every description meet to draft a message they want to send to a Western newspaper regarding a peculiar coup that has taken place in their snowbound city somewhere in Turkey. The coup was carried out by a traveling theater troupe, whose leader seems to be in ill health, days numbered, and was motivated by delusions of grandeur - maybe. Or maybe he's a front for some other power. It isn't clear. Anyway, there are young unemployed Kurdish youths at this meeting, old radical nationalists, a former Communist or two, an old Kurdish granny whose grandson was taken in the night, a political Islamist leader - that's what Pamuk calls the militant Muslims, political Islamists - his beautiful mistress, who's a Muslim contemplating removing her head scarf as a protest, all manner of individuals, each with an agenda. Involved in a non-partisan effort, a scene Pamuk handles with instructive satire. The wrangling might have continued longer if the political Islamist hadn't made a scene and stormed out. It seemed a good depiction of how far any group of people are from productive nonpartisan political efforts.
Also eye-opening to me, the diversity in Turkish politics.