You know when I was younger and wasn't "aware" so to speak I thought the Star Wars saga was neat and all and a good story about the father eventually saving his son, HOWEVER once you become older you realize the more vile elements in this movie. Lest the point be missed, you must remember that George Lucas is still a big liberal kook, shown by him working with Speilberg on the Indiana Jones series along with him making that movie on the Tuskeegee airmen.
First it must be made aware, that Lucas was inspired by the leftist literature of the time blabbing about Nixon "taking absolute power" with the Watergate break-in (even though LBJ and FDR did the same tactics) and so Lucas made the senators handing power willingly over to the Empire and was inspired by Watergate, along with Napoleon and Hitler being given absolute power, instead of taking it by force. In the prequel trilogy Lucas was inspired by George Bush taking power over our "war on terrorism."
Second, the Empire itself is modelled after the British Empire, and the Rebels after the Americans, and the Empire is made out to be intolerant and bigots, considering their "xenophobic" policies against aliens, while the Rebels are good old egalitarian humanists who accept everybody. It is yet again another moral lecture to those evil "racists" out there.
Finally the Jedi themselves are modelled after militaristic Buddhist monks because of their celibacy and their whole philosophy is inspired by Eastern mysticism.
I am reminded of a recent interview Lucas did in where Lucas said that Obama was Luke Skywalker, Michelle Obama was Leia, and he was Han Solo, with George Bush being the Emperor and Richard Cheney being Darth Vader. :shocked:
The guy's truly mucked up in the head.