When I got back home the next day, I read an article online about The Very Wealthy who had started to build emergency rooms in their own homes, staffed with their own doctors. These private e.r.’s cost around $30,000 a month to maintain. They don’t want to have to rub elbows with the likes of me.

Republicans and other elite representatives of the One-Percenters running this country know that the facts are against them, in everything from economic dealings to the criminal-justice system to the environment. So, when confronted by the facts, they do everything they can to draw attention away from themselves, preferably through the use of inflammatory statements intended to bog people down in defending against them.