“”If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.”

So goes a line from the latest Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, giving the public reason to suspect parallels between modern politics and the the movie. Lucas… rejects them. Kind of.

“In ancient Rome, “why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?” Lucas said. “Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It’s the same thing with Germany and Hitler.”

“You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody’s squabbling, there’s corruption.”

But the Bush supporters protesteth too much. I don’t know. Imagine a nation where the Senate votes its deliberative powers away, opting instead to become a rubber-stamp for the presidency. Hard to imagine.

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