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Sen.-Elect Abdul El-Sayed went on ABC’s The View and explained why progressive policies are really pro-American people policies.
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El-Sayed said:
Well, I want to think about what progressive policies are, right? If you're saying we should stand up to corporations and oligarchy, that's about making life affordable.
Everybody in this audience right now has a cell phone, probably made by one of two carriers. Everybody here has probably one of three carriers that give you operability on that cell phone. That is corporate power to the level that we have not seen in this country for a very long time.
Think about Medicare for all. It's just saying that everybody should have guaranteed health insurance without having to worry about how much they got to pay on the back end. So my point is this: if our policies are about trying to solve real problems for people.