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I love my Berner family, but to keep it real, some of ya’ll did nothing but post on social media for our campaign so don’t tell me how I’m “allowed” to feel right now! I gave my entire fucking life to this campaign. It’s totally different for those of us who invested so much 1/
I left my family and my home for 5 weeks to volunteer in Iowa for our campaign. I knocked on hundreds of doors in below 0 degrees, while continuously falling on snow + ice. I ran up over $1k of plane tickets + a place to stay, which I will never be able to pay off. I made 2/
Thousands of phone calls + continued here as Victoty Captain in PA. I did this b/c I believed in our campaign, with every inch of my heart + every ounce of my soul, so don’t fucking tell me I can’t be hurt when just a few days ago, I was recruiting ppl to phonebank. For ppl 3/
Like myself, this was my last fucking hope. I never talk about it publicly, but I unexpectedly became disabled in 2019 by permanently losing the majority of my sight. You cannot fathom what I’ve been going through. My entire life has been turned upside down by it. Our campaign 4/
Was my only distraction. It’s all I had. This is the first time I’ve publicly even said all of this, but there’s no point in hiding it anymore. I’m using a voice text to type this. It has been my painful reality that I’ve been way too scared to solidify by saying it out loud.
A few ppl have gotten defensive on this post + I apologize for that. I thought I made it very clear that this was directed towards those who are insisting we shouldn’t feel a certain way, despite being so emotionally involved. If you aren’t doing that, this isn’t about you.
