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Let’s Face it – Star Wars is All About Politics…
Analysis

Let’s Face it – Star Wars is All About Politics…

Ostensibly about two orders of mystical lightsaber-wielding monks and the triumph of good over evil, the Star Wars franchise is actually more of a political thriller, a cautionary tale of how a democracy can slowly be corrupted and turned into a dictatorship. If you take the entire franchise as a whole, you can see that a failure from the mistakes of the past almost inevitably leads to those same mistakes being repeated once again, often to devastating effect. After all, the entire saga takes places within a lifetime - 66 years to be exact... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Prequels Whilst there are dozens of comics, novels and other media that chronologically predate the Prequel trilogy (though comparatively little since Disney's acquisi...
Has 2019 broken politics?
Opinion

Has 2019 broken politics?

The main premise of Politic-Ed is to educate the world on the on goings of politics at the moment as well as useful insight and analysis. Over the past few weeks we have gotten several comments from you telling us that politics is broken. Most of these comments say something along the lines of “2019 has broken politics!” Are these people right, or are they just being a little bit hyperbolic?  A quick Google search of the phrase “Is politics broken?” Yields quite a few results from quite a few respectable media outlets from across the world. After reading a few, from both the US and UK, you’d get the impression that politics is indeed broken. But this is likely not the case... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Politics is broken!  When interv...