2026-08-27T06:00:59-04:00 / 福克斯新闻网
这位密歇根州民主党参议院候选人将童年在海外度过的夏天与他口中“高度原子化”的美国生活进行对比
作者：亚历克·舍梅尔 福克斯新闻网
发布时间：2026年8月27日 美国东部时间早上6:00 | 更新时间：2026年8月27日 美国东部时间早上6:21
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赛义德将埃及“美好”生活与“高度原子化”的美国进行对比
赛义德称赞埃及的社区氛围，称“高度原子化”的美国人“极度渴望感受到某种联结”。（图片来源：Exxodus Pictures via Youtube – 8月5日，以及2019年密歇根大学公共卫生学院毕业典礼 via Youtube – 2019年5月7日）
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密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德将美国人描述为“极度渴望感受到某种联结”，并哀叹“我们在这里都只是独自生活”，这是他在去年一期播客节目中谈及童年长期在埃及生活时的感受——这些言论是在该候选人近日声称自己“厌恶”家乡州最具标志性的景点之一后被曝光的。
在2025年10月下旬的一次播客采访中，当被问及美国人能从“家乡生活”中获得什么时，赛义德给出了一个词的答案：“社区。”
“我认为当下美国生活最艰难的地方在于，我们已经变得，比如说，高度原子化了，”赛义德说道，他认为通过手机和社交媒体建立的联系“算不上社区”。他表示，在埃及和其他人类互动更为频繁的社会中，“你会时刻沉浸在他人的人性之中。”
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“这就像是一件美好的事情，”赛义德说，“我真希望我们能拥有更多这样的氛围。”
阿卜杜勒·赛义德，密歇根州民主党参议院候选人，2026年8月2日在密歇根州底特律的一场竞选活动中。（保罗·施泰因豪瑟/福克斯新闻网）
此次播客言论并非赛义德首次对美国社会和体制提出尖锐批评。
在2019年密歇根大学公共卫生学院的毕业典礼演讲中，当谈及底特律的种族和经济不平等问题时，他表示当地居民“遭到了各级政府直接且蓄意的边缘化”，这是一个“将种族主义深深植入其根基的城市、州和国家”。在演讲的后续部分，当谈及弗林特水危机和美国政治氛围时，赛义德表示，他目睹美国政治“倒退到我从未想过我们会回到的那种白人至上主义和种族主义老路”。
这些言论与赛义德有时所塑造的以密歇根为中心的形象形成了鲜明反差，他曾一度将自己描述为典型的“密歇根人”。然而在近日重新浮出水面的录音中，他表示自己“厌恶”麦基诺岛，将美式橄榄球文化的精神与奴隶制和压迫的历史叙事联系起来并对其提出质疑，还在一段分享“烟花为何糟糕”的四个理由的视频中称，美国人应该换一种方式庆祝独立日。在2021年的Substack帖子中，赛义德还称“有毒男子气概”是“美国最受欢迎运动的核心问题”。
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他的竞选团队对这些重新曝光的内容进行了反驳，告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），从旧播客中挑选出的言论并不能反映他如今的信念，并指出赛义德曾打过橄榄球，也曾公开庆祝过独立日。
在2025年10月的播客采访中，赛义德回忆起父母如何“每年夏天把我送到埃及”，这样他就能了解父亲的语言和文化，他有时会在父亲长大的一居室公寓里和工薪阶层的大家庭一起度过大约四个月的时光。
他告诉主持人，这些经历让他对“人类境况”有了一些认识，而他认为在美国生活中更难遇到这种境况。
“我认为在美国生活中，有时候我们不太了解其他人的生活，”赛义德说，他补充道，在像埃及这样的社会里，“其中的人性，比如说，其中的世俗本质，会冲击到你。”他称这种体验“令人愉悦”，并表示接触他人的生活会“软化甚至应该软化你的内心”，去理解他们的经历。
纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹（左）、密歇根州参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德和佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯，2026年7月18日在底特律歌剧院举办的“人民对抗强权”竞选活动上发表讲话。（尼克·安塔亚/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
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赛义德随后将“家乡”的婚礼称为“对人性的庆祝”，将人们欢聚数小时的场景与社交媒体进行对比，他将社交媒体描述为一家“通过你的视线和听力获利的大型公司”试图重现这种体验的尝试。他说，这种人际联结“无法”被替代，并称之为“生活中最美好的部分”。
“我认为，比如说，我们国家的本质在于，我们确实会团结起来共同建设一些东西，”赛义德说道，他认为美国人一直在“这种本能和追逐金钱的本能之间摇摆”，将从美国医疗体系到美国海外军事开支等一系列问题归咎于少数人对财富的追求。
“而且，比如说，在某些时刻，我宁愿生活在一个人们都能拥有基本生活必需品的社区，也不愿生活在一个少数人成为亿万富翁、而我们其他人都在受苦的国家。”
亚历克·舍梅尔是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，原籍北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市，现居住在华盛顿特区-巴尔的摩都会区。
WATCH: El-Sayed praised ‘beautiful’ sense of community abroad while trashing US as ‘White supremacy’
2026-08-27T06:00:59-04:00 / Fox News
The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee contrasted childhood summers abroad with what he called ‘deeply atomized’ American life
By Alec Schemmel Fox News
Published August 27, 2026 6:00am EDT | Updated August 27, 2026 6:21am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403724067112
El-Sayed contrasts ‘beautiful’ life in Egypt with ‘deeply atomized’ America
El-Sayed praises Egypt’s community, saying “deeply atomized” Americans are “desperate to feel something.” (Credit: Exxodus Pictures via Youtube – Aug. 5 and 2019 University of Michigan School of Public Health Commencement via Youtube – May 7, 2019)
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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed described Americans as “desperate to feel something” and lamented that “we’re just all living it alone here” while reflecting on the community he experienced during extended childhood stays in Egypt during a podcast episode last year — remarks uncovered after the candidate recently declared that he “hates” one of his home state’s most iconic destinations.
During a late-October 2025 podcast interview, after getting asked what Americans could gain from life “back home,” El-Sayed had a one-word answer: “Community.”
“I think the hardest part about American life right now is that we’ve been, like, deeply atomized,” El-Sayed said, arguing that the connections offered through phones and social media are “not community.” In Egypt and other societies with far more constant human interaction, he said, “you’re constantly enveloped in other people’s humanity.”
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“It’s like a beautiful thing,” El-Sayed said. “And I wish we had more of that.”
Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan on August 2, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The podcast remarks are not the first time El-Sayed has offered pointed criticism of American society and institutions.
During a 2019 University of Michigan School of Public Health commencement address, while discussing racial and economic disparities in Detroit, he said residents had been “directly and purposely marginalized by every level of government” in “a city and a state and a country that has baked racism into its foundation.” Later in the speech, while discussing the Flint water crisis and the country’s political climate, El-Sayed said he had watched American politics “revert to a strain of White supremacy and racism I never thought we’d go back to.”
The comments stand in tension with the Michigan-centered image El-Sayed has presented at times, at one point describing himself as the quintessential “Michigan man.” In recently resurfaced recordings, however, he said he “hates” Mackinac Island, questioned elements of football culture by linking its ethos to historical narratives of slavery and oppression, and argued Americans should find another way to celebrate the Fourth of July in a video sharing four reasons “why fireworks suck.” In a 2021 Substack post El-Sayed also said “toxic masculinity” was “at the heart of America’s most popular sport.”
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His campaign has pushed back on the resurfaced material, telling CNN that cherry-picked comments from old podcasts do not reflect his beliefs today and noting that El-Sayed played football and has publicly celebrated the Fourth of July.
During the October 2025 podcast interview, El-Sayed recounted how his parents would “ship me off to Egypt in the summers” so he would know his father’s language and culture, sometimes spending roughly four months with his working-class extended family in the one-bedroom apartment where his father grew up.
He told the hosts those experiences taught him something about “the human condition” that he believes can be harder to encounter in American life.
“I think in American life sometimes we’re not so privy to the lives other people lead,” El-Sayed said, adding that in societies like Egypt, “the humanity of it all, like the carnal nature of it all, hits you.” He called the experience “euphoric” and said exposure to other people’s lives “softens or should soften your heart” to their experiences.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., from left, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speak during the “The People v. The Powerful” campaign event at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit on July 18, 2026.(Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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El-Sayed later pointed to weddings “back home” as a “celebration of humanity,” contrasting people spending hours together with social media, which he described as an attempt to recreate that experience through “some huge corporation that’s monetizing your eyeballs and your eardrums.” He said that type of human connection “can’t” be replaced and called it “the best of living.”
“I think that, like, the essence of our country is that we actually do come together and build things collectively,” El-Sayed said, arguing Americans have been “oscillating between that instinct and the instinct to chase money,” blaming the pursuit of wealth by a small number of people for problems ranging from the American healthcare system to U.S. military spending abroad.
“And, like, at some point I’d rather live in community where people have the basic things they need than be in a country where a few people get to be billionaires and the rest of us get to suffer.”
Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.
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