Star Wars ideals cannot be ruined even by creator
Many people have attacked Star Wars for being politically motivated, most notably against George W. Bush and post 9-11 United States. I am sure Lucas has sprinkled his idiocy in his own creation but he can only put those few lines in. The overall theme of star wars is a conservative one. It is a world where there is a good and evil and the bad guys want control of everything. It also starts with the Rebels (America) trying to break away from the evil Empire (Britain).
This column from Cato on Fox News tells all. The empire is about as big of government as you can get, overregulating trade, consolidating all decisions in the hands of a few people, having no regard for any moral code, disallowing certain human freedoms, and of course I'm sure they're taxing the shit out of everyone. These people sound like commies to me, iff only they would put up a facade of equal resource distribution.
Darth Vader resembles Hillary Clinton a lot to me and they even talk in the same dull monotone. Senator Palpatine comes from Naboo and Senator Kennedatine comes from Massachoo. Isn't that eerie?
On a serious note, the only theme of star wars is that there is good and evil and big government is bad. Lucas tries to tweak his original message to what he thinks is bad now but Lucas is a filmmaker and not a thinker. If he was, he would realize that all the socialism and thought police laws that go on in Europe is the exact model of what is happening. Just like the republic which is a conglomerate of planets, the EU is about to form a powerful conglomerate of countries with the new constitution coming up.
This consolidation of power even in to a "republic" is just one step towards a dictatorship taking over the republic. Just because the reps are voted in doesn't mean they represent the people, the only way to do this is to keep government as close to individuals it represents as possible. Federalism is the key, not this central authoritarian "republic." I can make a case though for how modern republicans are becoming too big government and less concerned with downsizing it and giving rights back to states.
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