You just restated what I said. Who gives a fuck if you defend the liberal arts, when they're so undervalued it's 100% dependent on internship experience, more so than anything else? The OP hasn't even said he has work experience. Considering that's something even most of our parents didn't stress or understand, I doubt it. And now, despite being perfectly suited to at least a basic desk job, s/he's in trouble.
I don't know a single history, poli sci, etc. person who was not literally given a job by a friend, their mom's boyfriend, someone who liked them at their first shitty desk job related to their major, and it was in something corporate or possibly in start-ups, like writing for copy. You don't need a plan if you are in the liberal arts. You need someone to literally give you a job, hand it to you. So why bother with the liberal arts at all?
"Otherwise you're one of thousands of kids with a history degree they got because history is cool, who are going to be really hard to employ, because no one is hiring down at the history plant." I wasn't educated to do that. Were you? If so, more power to you, a shitload of high school kids chose the major that they enjoyed, not anticipating they will be passed over for shitty receptionist jobs that don't require a bachelor's.
You are 100% as contemptuous of them with your bullshit "because it's cool idea". An 18 year old chooses a major because they've never been taught how to get a fucking job in the real world, the "skills" that apply to high paying jobs, and how to pursue labor, then frame it. It's not that kid's fault their degree is treated like toilet paper.
I loved my degree. It was valued by no one, including not for profits who supported causes I studied. Every job opening was senior and I was depressed/had no adult guidance during college itself, so I didn't pursue the internships that would have at least gotten me job experience when it was age appropriate. I also changed careers after going to grad school/teaching, while attending, so that was destructive. I would have settled for a desk job answering phones, not a dream one.
Every art history major I know now is working for a media group or start-up. The history majors? In not for profit development working for city government (there, OP, pursue an internship in municipal government, at least that's a start). But they started in piddling jobs that were simply platforms into networking for those jobs.
You haven't even suggested an actual paying job the OP could do, so really - so really what in God's name are you going on about? What 18 year old do you know with a "plan" about how to get a job with a history degree?