Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
and neither is POLITICS!! 😠
You have MUCH to learn my dear.................for instance, "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," one of the finest allegories on classical liberal political economy to ever appear.
The Republic is falling apart due to taxation, protectionism, bureaucracy, and corruption. The Dark Side, accurately labeled the "federalists" is trying to enforce its franchise on trade taxes by trying to intimidate a small peaceful planet that believes in free trade, peace, and republican virtues. Queen Amadala refuses to pursue any path that might endanger peace and start a war.
Her country of the Naboo was at first subjected to excessive taxation and is being blockaded, a path that she rightly fears will lead to war. She attempts to appeal to the central government for an end to the trade restrictions, but quickly discovers that the Republic's Galactic Senate is dominated by bureaucrats and yammering special-interest groups interested only in manipulating the system to their own benefit.
so there you have it; perhaps the priestess should stick her nose out of her sleeping chambers and wake up to the reality that has enveloped the new era