Apparently there is such a screaming need for tradesmen and women, that if you are good at it, you can pull in a 6 figure income with no problem at all.
Having a marketable skill instead of a degree in sociology or gender studies, is going to put food on your table for your life time.
And if conservatives are the ones who can fix things, they have the liberal snowflakes over a barrel. They will survive if/when TSHTF.
Also, one can get into those gender studies and “soesh” classes to upend their lockstep one-sided ideology. Those ideologues don’t have a lock on knowledge.