My mother, the queen of all narcissists, immediately started grilling me for wedding details: When? Where? How many bridesmaids? What color linens? Was I going to make sure my future mother-in-law wore a different color dress than hers at the wedding? She then went on to tell me how successful she was in spite of it all and told me that she had a 4.0 average in college. She talked about other great things about herself. It was allotted to take in right out of the box from someone I never met. They have been told by their trusted leaders and opinionators that single-payer means socialism and that we will end up like Venezuela. These leaders and opinionators use lies, damned lies, cherry-picked statistics, and apocryphal stories to tell their followers it’s a horror show in all these other countries. Except that the torch the plumber used for the soldering ended up setting the insulation on fire between the walls.