Mind you even star wars liberal politicians like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, literally covertly send ships (recorded as being stolen by “pirates”) and prisoners to the rebels, as well as massive financial support. Like not even the most radical elected official in america does that.
I love the show for what it is, but that’s definitely part of its liberal fantasy, a way to project the desire for the ghouls from the party they support to secretly be on their side
of course that baggage was already there from the prequels. Lucas might have been imagining the Viet Cong in the 70s but those late 90s/mid 2000s scripts were pretty firmly the ramblings of a rich dude a little too bought in to the idea that Cheyney just tricked everyone into invading Iraq and not that the structure of the political system itself meant that liberals genuinely saw it as being in their best interests
it’s sort of a minor error for Andor though, people wanting to use quotes like this are at least directly contradicted by the actual events of the show. Mothma doesn’t do much more than blow hot air to a dwindling senate and that still gets her marked for assassination, and she doesn’t respond by coming back to apologize for hurting the fascists’ feelings
Mind you even star wars liberal politicians like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, literally covertly send ships (recorded as being stolen by “pirates”) and prisoners to the rebels, as well as massive financial support. Like not even the most radical elected official in america does that.
I love the show for what it is, but that’s definitely part of its liberal fantasy, a way to project the desire for the ghouls from the party they support to secretly be on their side
of course that baggage was already there from the prequels. Lucas might have been imagining the Viet Cong in the 70s but those late 90s/mid 2000s scripts were pretty firmly the ramblings of a rich dude a little too bought in to the idea that Cheyney just tricked everyone into invading Iraq and not that the structure of the political system itself meant that liberals genuinely saw it as being in their best interests
it’s sort of a minor error for Andor though, people wanting to use quotes like this are at least directly contradicted by the actual events of the show. Mothma doesn’t do much more than blow hot air to a dwindling senate and that still gets her marked for assassination, and she doesn’t respond by coming back to apologize for hurting the fascists’ feelings