Talk:Galactic Empire/@comment-25092680-20140727224955/@comment-1672596-20160326231843

You know what? On second thought, count me among those who are Empire supporters. Not because I like the Empire at all, but because of something George Lucas made public less than a few months ago regarding a certain inspiration for the Rebel Alliance.

Specifically, in this book called How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, it was revealed that, in addition to the already-known factoid that the Ewoks had been based on the Vietcong and that the Empire had been based on America during the time of the Vietnam War, Lucas had in fact based the Rebel Alliance on the Vietcong, and had planned for Star Wars to be anti-war/pro-Vietcong since at least 1973 (as a matter of fact, it was even intended to be the third movie of an entire trilogy of anti-war movies, including American Graffiti and [back when Lucas actually WAS making the film anyways] Apocalypse Now). It was bad enough that Return of the Jedi's Endor ground battle had to be mangled with at best stone-age warriors like the Ewoks beating the Empire just to push pro-Vietcong propaganda. Learning extremely bluntly that the Rebels, who as a kid I looked up to and compared to the American Minutemen, or even the French Resistance against Nazi Germany during World War II, had actually been based on that same group and that their struggles against the Empire was yet ANOTHER pro-Vietcong propaganda pushing agenda, just made things even worse and practically destroyed my trust and devotion to the Rebels. We Americans risked our lives trying to ensure that Vietnam remained free from Communist influence, and to learn that the Rebels were in fact supposed to be the enemies we were fighting against, and worse, said enemies were a bunch of psychopathic, mass-murdering, terrorizing commies, and WE'RE treated and demonized as the bad guys as a result, comes across as Lucas just explicitly stabbing us through the gut, groin, thigh, and back all at the same time, and then leaving us to bleed out to death.

Long and the short is, I'm supporting the Empire since it's pretty much based on my own home country of America, and besides, I'd loathe to support Communist groups thanks in large part to how they massacred us Christians. I may have my... issues with America's founding right now thanks to Liberty: The God that Failed, but make no mistake, I would rather serve America which at least attempts to pretend about being a Christian nation from the start and try to protect Christianity, than ally myself with a bunch of communist degenerates who make no attempt at hiding that they want us dead for our religion, or our even HAVING a religion for that matter. Can't support the Old Republic thanks to knowing about how democracy tried to wipe us Christians out during the French Revolution, the start of Democracy since the Hellenistic era, the Separatists were basically scum as it was especially when a lot of times, while they did have some good points behind their revolting, they were namely in it for themselves, and the Jedi? Their whole "non-attachment" schtick basically made them no different from the Sith, more specifically Palpatine, who spent pretty much the entire saga disposing of everyone like some kind of cheap car without even the slightest hesitance, and besides which, it also essentially made them out to be sociopaths (jeez, no wonder Anakin defected to the Sith. Who in their right mind would support something like that? Not even monastic orders of the church when giving up worldly possessions are THAT callous).

Sorry if it skirts close to politics, but it needs to be said, and besides, Lucas basically made it about politics in the first place, all I'm doing is reacting to it. I won't support it's successor group, the First Order, though: At least THAT is specifically shown to be Neo-Nazi in origin and besides which, it's pretty clear unlike with the Galactic Empire that it's NOT based on America at all, especially not primarily.