The Case for the Empire

Wanted to try out quoting another article just as a template for the future, so I picked out this one I read almost 7 years ago(damn) in the Weekly Standard

"Lucas wants the Empire to stand for evil, so he tells us that the Emperor and Darth Vader have gone over to the Dark Side and dresses them in black.

But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."

Palpatine believes that the political order must be manipulated to produce peace and stability. When he mutters, "There is no civility, there is only politics," we see that at heart, he's an esoteric Straussian.

Make no mistake, as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator--but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet. It's a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen."

Just think, in order to get control of the government, the Emperor only had to have a war so the people would be forced to embrace change...marginalize(kill) his only opposition for his vision of the governments power, and he was home free....where have I heard this before? Good thing Obama just had to give some flowery speeches devoid of meaning to win over the masses...he already had the war. Then he just ignores the opposition instead of killing them...good to be the king.

Hey if lefties can warp the movies into an anti Bush allegory...I can do the opposite...my kung foo is strong.