I talked with someone the other day who is a former liberal. He is a small business owner and a very decent, well meaning fellow. He was never an in-your-face type of liberal but he always thought the best of people.
With the downturn in the economy he had to move his shop to a poor section of the city. He wasn’t worried because it was right across the street from the police station. He moved in and when he came to work the next morning his shop was entirely cleaned out. Everything. Everything he uses to make a living. He’s in shock.
That happened to my work van, it was stolen and cleaned out, the cop that came to the shop said that when he saw it in the police yard, that it had been full of tools and retail goods, and that the boys who took it seemed to have only driven it around, without showing interest in all the stuff inside the van.
The tools and goods that I never saw again, a huge amount of expensive tools and goods.