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biden is not comparable to yoda though.
star wars is an allegory to the vietnam war. the US is the empire.
Star Wars is often "Schrödinger's Political Allegory" - the Empire is British/Roman/German but also American (if Endor = Vietnam, and Jedha = the Middle East), but the Rebels are somehow American too. Whatever side you're on, you can use Star Wars to cast yourself as the good guy, and the other side as the baddies.
the rebels are supposed to be vietnam
I realise that Lucas has said that the ewoks in Return of the Jedi were representations of the North Vietnamese. If you look at Rogue One, though, Saw's men are called terrorists, they use IEDs, it's a desert environment ... so the Rebels are, um, ISIS? Who do we want to win again?
Star Wars has always been too flakey to say Rebels are definitely this, or the the Empire are definitely that. It's popularity, and it's use by people on any part of the political spectrum as a a recruitment tool, depends on the fact that the US is magically both.
to be fair the new trilogy went a bit off rails lol
mostly because Disney did not understand the origional, and it is not in their interst to paint the US as baddies so it lost the political message
Yoda was blind to the rise of fascism and got overrun by the emperor. He also supported a questionable system that clearly had lots of issues for hundreds of years.
Star Wars isn't an allegory to the Vietnam War. That's just something Lucas said to sound smart. At no point during the plot of the OG trilogy does it draw parallels to any of the real world events in the Vietnam War.
the metaphors are all on point imo
You're overthinking things again.
Nah, Lucas confirmed it.
Again, shows you how much Lucas knows about history. The Mujahideen were allied with the US during the Soviet-Afghan war.
you're not a smart person are you
This is a 2018 interview, during the US occupation of Afghanistan.
thinking is a good thing.
When done properly, yes.