a lot of normies talk about how palpatine destroyed the republic and democracy but not many of them talk about the legitimate issues and problems the republic had seriously and how there was going to be no serious change in the republic it would have stayed a corrupted bloated oligarchy for a very long time the bloodless revolution palpatine launched destroyed the old order and brought forth a new order which itself was eventually overthrown and in legends replaced with a republic worth defending while i do generally hate liberals and their forms of government luke was a great man and worth following