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You'll never see women candidates and/or candidates of color and/or LGBTQ candidates say we "need to find ourselves" prior to announcing a campaign because it's already pretty damn clear our worldview has been crystallized by lack of privilege. That's the difference here.
You don't see candidates who are women, folks of color, and LGBTQ people run as resumes looking for a reason. We don't treat elected office like an aimless undergrad applying to law school "because it's something to do".
Candidates without white privilege, male privilege, cishet privilege, etc. don't run not because they lack a reason to run but because they lack a supportive network to run. Money. Advisors. A political party apparatus.
Again and again and again, it feels as though certain members of political media and certain white male politicians either blatantly ignore this dynamic or fundamentally fail to understand it.
