That brings to mind the classic scene in Inglourious Basterds with Colonel Landa....
COL LANDA Unless some fool is stupid enough to try and handle a live one, rats don't make it a practise of biting human beings. Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that was some time ago. In all your born days, has a rat ever caused you to be sick a day in your life? I purpose to you, any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Yet I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?
PERRIER No.
COL LANDA Yet, they are both rodent's, are they not? And except for the fact that one has a big bushy tail, while the other has a long repugnant tail of rodent skin, they even rather look alike, don't they?
PERRIER It is a interesting thought, Herr Colonel.
COL LANDA However, interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel. If a rat were to scamper through your door, this very minute, would you offer it a saucer of your delicious milk?
PERRIER Probably not.
COL LANDA I didn't think so. You don't like them. You don't really know why you don't like them. All you know is, you find them repulsive.
You mean like people who vote Democrat?