{"id":658,"date":"2005-05-17T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=658"},"modified":"2005-05-17T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T18:36:48","slug":"star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/05\/17\/star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003448\"><\/a><i>&#8220;&#8221;If you\u2019re not with me, then you\u2019re my enemy.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; rejects them.  Kind of.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;In ancient Rome, &#8220;why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?&#8221; Lucas said. &#8220;Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It\u2019s the same thing with Germany and Hitler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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\u2019s squabbling, there\u2019s corruption.&#8221;  <\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leverkuhn.redstate.org\/story\/2005\/5\/16\/22630\/2909\">But the Bush supporters protesteth too much<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t know.  Imagine a nation where the Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=%22Nuclear+Option%22\">votes its deliberative powers away<\/a>, opting instead to become a rubber-stamp for the presidency.  Hard to imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;If you\u2019re not with me, then you\u2019re my enemy.&#8221; 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&#8230; rejects them. Kind of. &#8220;In ancient Rome, &#8220;why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}