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Abdul El-Sayed: “You watch as they use their power to suppress our wages for…”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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Published | Video Starts at 02:08

He's just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics. And the disease is the system that allows corporations and billionaires and would be oligarchs to buy and sell politicians to do their bidding. You watch as they use their power to suppress our wages for the work that we have to do and to raise our prices for the things we have to buy. And I think this time around, people are recognizing that actually, we dealt with the symptom, but we didn't deal with the disease. (02:08–02:15)

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