It's also an allegory for ALL naive liberals. There is a group of liberals who aren't silly power hungry sociopaths. Half of them are like the preacher in War of the Worlds, that don't understand that not all living things, including humans, are cute furry little things that with a little help, understanding and love, will be your best friends. What they really don't understand is the number of living things that will present as a cute furry little things that just need a little understanding and love as a ploy to either rip you off or kill you.
So ... interesting story on its own, but is also an excellent allegory as it applies to half of liberalism in general.
What Buckley noted a few decades ago applies today more than ever...
“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty,”
You’ve left the old fashioned God fearing classical liberal completely out of your classification system... just saying.