Define "genuinely profitable degree", because STEM degrees aren't. Education degrees aren't, and that's despite an active shortage of those to the point where we have to import them. Medical degrees aren't either, most of those leave you in debt for a decade. Law's the same. The only "profitable degree" is "an MBA that comes with a job daddy already set up for me with his connections"
A huge chunk of the reason those aren't profitable degrees is because student loans have enabled ludicrous tuition inflation. Without those, the institutions would be utterly unsustainable at their current fees, because they only get that money thanks to student loans
guaranteeing they get their money.
I said "less likely". Not "unable to". Furthermore, Trump's
policy has had virtually nothing to do with
white nationalism. It's a fairly generic isolationist-nationalist sort of thing, in terms of the policy itself. I've heard nothing of damage to the African American community, nor was any such thing involved in his platform. The Hispanics are
outsiders coming
in, in violation of existing US law that has largely been in place since Bush, with nearly no changes under Obama. The Muslim ban that initially made it through was targeted
not at countries that were Muslim, but a select few within that group that have noteworthy hostility to the United States.
Nope, economics have always have been a major determination on political power in history. If you can't spend the time to vote because even one hour means choosing heat, the car, or food, then you can't vote. Between the trend of stagflation started by Reagan (if the minimum wage kept up with inflation, it would be $20+ if I remember right), the weakening of the unions and workers' rights in general, among other things, most people don't have the time or money to vote. Even if you can muster the political capital to get a voting day, it'll be killed in committee at the earliest... because that means that is a day that people aren't working and thus not getting a paycheck. Trying to force it as paid leave that everyone gets is impossible given the unwillingness of corporations in general.
Numbers proving these claims. Show me that large segments of the US
do work long enough for it to post a barrier to having the
time to go vote. You are not showing me your claim is true, all you're showing is that people can't miss work, and I've given
multiple ways this is not actually proving your point. People
can't, outside of
very rare circumstances, work long enough to be left with less than four hours outside the workplace. So unless two hours commuting each way is commonplace, the issue is not a matter of not having enough
time. And given the average millennial work week is about 47 hours, it's a
fact that 10 hours a day is abnormally
high.
The bulk of the population
does not have working hours that make it difficult to have the
time to vote. The conflict is, at most, one of tim
ing. Work hours overlapping voting hours. People aren't on utterly psychotic shoestring budgets like you're thinking, "paycheck to paycheck" usually means
loan payments being shuffled to avoid bankruptcy. It's not forcing a choice between gas, food and rent. It's
usually going to be a matter of
debt payments. Because it is
not possible for most people to have the sort of work schedule to actually end up in the situation you're talking about, simply because a 12 hour work day is an
unholy pile of garbage for workplace efficiency. Hell, there's some studies showing 8 hours of work is pushing it. People
are not being prevented from voting due to work hours on any major scale, because the voting period is often placed such that people can detour during lunch hour for it or go do it before or after work. Total overlap is absurdly rare, and the most common shift has several hours
after the end of the typical work hours to vote.
You're either thinking that people can just decide to work as long as they want, or that work hours frequently overlap the whole voting period. Both of these are extremely rare circumstances. Unless you have numbers
directly showing otherwise?