Yeah OP needs to rewatch the movies if that’s how they remember it. The empire was Democratic in the same way that the DPRK of North Korea is democratic
IDK if we watched the same movies but Palpatine was a democratically elected senator who was then voted into the office of chancellor by a democratically elected senate and granted additional powers by said senate.
“Nicht alles was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich” as we say in German. Palpatine didn’t oust any political rivals or use militias to force them to flee the country/planet.
Palpatine secretly controlled the whole trade blockade around Naboo as well as directing Count Dooku, Darth Maul and General Grievous among many other shenanigans.
To compare it to German history: Palpatine didn’t just light the metaphorical Reichstag on fire, my Geschwisty. He used an armada of tanks assembled into a Voltron-style robot that shoots Flammenwerfer capable of turning air into fuel.
Yeah OP needs to rewatch the movies if that’s how they remember it. The empire was Democratic in the same way that the DPRK of North Korea is democratic
IDK if we watched the same movies but Palpatine was a democratically elected senator who was then voted into the office of chancellor by a democratically elected senate and granted additional powers by said senate.
The second the meaningful voting stops, you stop being a democracy. Simple as.
This discussion is heavily based on how you define “democracy”
“Nicht alles was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich” as we say in German. Palpatine didn’t oust any political rivals or use militias to force them to flee the country/planet.
Did you forget about order 66?
Order 66 would fall under the emergency powers the Senate granted to him.
It’s possible the emergency powers bill was written by a complete idiot.
Palpatine secretly controlled the whole trade blockade around Naboo as well as directing Count Dooku, Darth Maul and General Grievous among many other shenanigans.
To compare it to German history: Palpatine didn’t just light the metaphorical Reichstag on fire, my Geschwisty. He used an armada of tanks assembled into a Voltron-style robot that shoots Flammenwerfer capable of turning air into fuel.
I really wish this was in the prequels.