[bitlax]

> What kind of people are going to sign up for this when your administration has been so hostile to kind, caring, empathetic individuals who are equipped to do this work?

"Ok, I'm imagining myself as a fentanyl dealer. Now I don't want to go to jail for selling fentanyl. Someone died from overdosing on my fentanyl and I don't want to get caught."

"Wow I guess we don't want to put drug dealers in jail then."

Couldn't Mariann Budde advance a much more productive conversation by being empathetic with someone like, say, me?