You either die a grifter rightoid or live long enough to put on the fursuit/programmer socks/communist manifesto.
Funnily enough I did start off here as a southern baptist republican/libertarian. Went full 180 to queer commie. I did retire my programmer socks due to suicidal depression, and while I never became a furry, I did end up going into theatre, which is kinda the same thing.
We had an exercise in one acting class where we needed to perform a shakespearian monologue as an animal. I did Caius Cassius from Julius Cesar as an American Great Horned Owl.
"HOO here that talkst of rome has said that her wide wall could hold but one man? Now it is 'Rome' indeed and room enough when there is in it but one man. You and I have heard our fathers say, there was a Brutus once HOO would have brooked the eternal devil to keep his state in rome, as easily as a king."