Op-Ed: How can a sexual abuse survivor vote for an accused abuser?
Picture taken from Flickr. It was the morning Bernie dropped out of the race. I was making breakfast with my sister Sofia in our ki tchen. It was like any other boring morning in quarantine. We got up, headed downstairs, ate, and went about our days. My sister checked her phone as she waited for her waffles to pop up in the toaster. “Bernie dropped out of the race,” she gasped. Guess it wasn’t just another boring day in quarantine after all. I immediately picked up my phone and saw the hashtag trending on Twitter, #WowBernie. I pressed on it, and scrolled through the tweets of those reacting to the news. I felt a pit in my stomach. “What’s the fucking point of democracy when the two people fighting to run your country are both sexual predators,” one Twitter user wrote. A story was being shared around on Facebook with the headline, “Bernie fails to sexually harass women to win race.” I sat in my kitchen with my uneaten breakfast in front of me, trying my