I am on the precipice of one and don’t want that to turn me into a disengaged normies, lib, or chud. I know that a local DSA chapter was financially backed by a person of incredible means, so I wonder what keeps such people left wing or at least SocDem.
Unfortunately if you don’t have marketable skills you need to pass a drug test, but if you can swing that there are many good jobs in the public sector, many of them union.