politics the two party system and frank interview about it with jerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate coming right up. in the. arts he's sitting down with jerry white socialist equality party presidential candidate for the upcoming twenty twelve election that's right thank you very much for joining our team today thank you very much but according to a gallup poll a record number of americans now identify themselves as independents that's actually more than those who identify themselves as democrats or republicans what do you think that says about american politics really central question is for years social opposition has always been channeled back into the democratic party which has presented itself as the people's party right so you had huge protests for example against the iraq war in two thousand and three but then the leadership of those protests quickly put that movement behind first the john kerry campaign then finally the obama campaign. you had the occupy wall street protests an expression initial expression of enormous anger over social inequality the d