Honestly, the dangers for a Senator came from everywhere. In public, they were despised by the common people for their greed. In the Senate, their own Senators would stab them on the back. Even the people in charge of protecting them could (if paid enough) stab them in the back…
No wonder the jedi wanted to avoid the senate. It’s always the senate they keeps bringing the jedi back in to there flaming wreckage of a senate and beg them “you have to help the republic will fall if you don’t”
It's pretty sad Palpatine dissolved the Senate just when all the senators were leaving aside their differences in order to face together a common enemy: The Empire
Anakin: I'm so glad you don't have to go out on the front lines, it's so dangerous there and you'd never survive! Padmé, who just saw two of her colleagues murdered: Uhhh
Clones with a cart Clone: "Bring out yer dead!" **Ding** Assassin: "Here's 1" Clone: "Credits" Senator: "im not dead" Clone: "What?" Assassin: "Nothing! Heres your credits!" Senator: "I'm not dead!" Clone: "hey, he says he's not dead" Assassin: "yes he is" Senator: "im not!" Clone: "He isn't?" Assassin: "Well he will be soon, he's very poisoned." Senator: "I'm getting better!" Assassin: "No your not, you'll be stone dead in a moment." Clone: "I cant em like that, its against regulations" Senator: "I don't wanna go on the cart" Assassin: "oh dont be such a baby" Clone: "I cant take him" Senator: "I feel fine" Assassin: "Well do us a favor" Clone: "I can't!" Assassin: "Well can you bring it around in a couple on minutes he won't be long" Clone: "aw, but i gotta go to the Rodians, they lost 9 today" Assassin: "Well whens your next run?" Clone: "Thursday" Senator: "I think I'll go for a walk" Assassin: "your not foolin' anyone y'Know" Assassin: "look, is there something you can do?" Senator: "I feel happy! I feel happy!" Clone: **BONK** Assassin: "Ah! Thanks Very much!" Clone: "See you on Thursday."
I would love a video on what happened to the sith empire. Despite all its flaws, it possessed a sound and capable structure. So it being destroyed couldn’t have been a easy feat.
If I remember that right, In 'Clone Wars' no one even asked why Padme came out of Hyperspace in tractor range of the Malevolence. The chances for that being an accident are higher than astronomical, starting with the mission that brought her out there. No one even suspected that it might have been Palpatine himself that sent her there. I guess everyone assumed that someone put the wrong coordinates into her astrogation computer. And with the number of Senators getting hurt and killed no one bothered to look deeper into it.
Palpatine: Congratulations Senators, you have just given me unlimited political power Senators: Great, what do we win? Palpatine: Nothing! Now get out Senators:Uh, what? Palpatine: Get out! All of you get out you’re spoiling my moment.
This just goes to show that if you strip the Sith, Megacorporation and Droid Army influence from separatists, they might as well be the good guys. They were fighting for less corruption, less taxation and more freedom. Very similar to the American and initial stages of the French Revolution.
The Separatists would never have formed naturally without the Sith and the megacorps. For one thing, everybody had their own issues. Not everyone were the regular folks ignored by the government thanks to the corruption. A lot of these more morally evil members were brought in just like the Separatist Council, thanks to Dooku. Now yes, several smaller separatist movements likely would have popped up eventually. Then comes the military. Even without the Republic as an enemy, the Separatists would need an army tk defend all its worlds, many of which were usually attacked by pirates and crime gangs. They ran rings around most Separatist PDF’s because they were underfunded and lacked the best equipment. Now, who’s going to supply the Separatists with modern equipment? Republic corporations? Probably not, especially if the Senate was hostile. They would have to rely on Separatidt megacorps, who no doubt would want much in return. To put it simply, the same conditions that pushed Separatists to secede also make them dependent on the Sith, megacorps, and droid army to be a faction. This shouldn’t erase from the fact they had good intentions, which is the point of why they seceded. Still, it just looks like they were screwed to either lose or make deals with the devils. Extra Fact: A number of Separatist worlds were just planets belonging to megacorps. Think like how the Trade Federation would have ended its blockade of Pantora if they joined the CIS. Despite many planets bring coerced by these corporations into the CIS, other worlds seemed to have positive experiences. Most of the Abrion Sector seceded because the Separatists and likely the megacorps offered better deals for their food compared to the unfair ones with the Republic’s Core Worlds. And megacorps did protect many worlds before the war while the Republic sat back. Of course their were drawbacks.
Just two more to add to this: in the initial stages of the True Sith’s return ( _Star Wars: the Old Republic_ lore), senators were sent to negotiate, but were fired upon on sight… On a mission to Buy Count Dooku from Hondo Ohnaka & his pirates, a Senator told Binks about the last time he was on a ransom mission…
To clarify, that senator we’re talking about, at least initially by you, @Mackenzie Bauroth, was about how things were before the start of the clone wars…
With less government, big corporations are also less powerful. If you have a bigger government lobby groups can bribe politicians to make decisions that help them. It is a win win for politicians and big companies but a loss for average civilians. Just look at how in the past tobbaco companies made gov say that smoking was good for you, or how sugar industry influences food guide causing obesity epidemic. Ironically people say the solution to this is more government. That creates more corruption. Just look at central Africa. The corruption is a result of too many regulations making it hard for business to survive, so they bribe the government. Also elites and big corporations who want to tax the rich will bypass the tax, making it harder for up and coming business to steal their spot.
@@noidea9133 that's not entirely true. Less government would only mean less people to bribe for big corporations. It would also mean less regulation and I think we can both agree we can't trust corporations to regulate themself. Real world government is far from being as bad as the star wars senate. In star wars, the senate is stupid big and represent thousands of worlds in one place.
@@Torlik11 well, to be fair, I don't believe that what American conservatives consider "small government" is just a government with less politicians, rather a government where politicians have less power so even if you bribe them they can't do much harm. I'm not american though, so I could be wrong.
@10 Bears America’s current government is pretty corrupt. A lot of insider trading shapes what contracts are granted or restrictions are passed, from big thinks like energy regulation to random thinks your wouldn’t think about like a credit card company stock. Then don’t even get me started on the corruption of the current administration labeling everyday citizens as terrorists so they lose the right protest
Yh political curruption was just what palpatine thrived on.If you were a minor anti war senator you most likely would have an "accident" before or after your big speech
the sad fact is that even if Padme and Anakin got away from the galactic crap shoot, turns out they would have had an unfortunate speeder accident over a rancor pit
I would of loved being on their protection detail in the Shock Troopers besides the cool uniforms the travel you'd get to do guarding Senators would be an awesome adventure.
1) I could be wrong but I think something akin to this happened in the Roman Republic/Empire 2) After hearing this, I don't know what was worse: the republic or the empire
The senate of the films was incredibly dull, it was only in the Clone Wars, when they had the chance to explore it more fully and flesh out key players and build up just how corrupt and inefficient the system was that it actually became interesting.
Last time I checked, as of June/July of 2021 there have been 86 political assassinations in Mexico by the cartels. Not exactly senators but I thought this could be related to the video.
They did disband their military years before they receive clone troopers due to lack of warrior culture since they no longer have troopers cause of peace, as well supposed end of sith
You forgot to mention Senator Kharrus, who casually mentioned being imprisoned for weeks before dying when his shuttle was shot down. His replacement was gunned down by Cad Bane within a year's time. Shortly before being hired as the prime clone, Jango tossed Connus Trell off the top of a skyscraper and never suffered any consequences, concluding Trell wouldn't be missed. And this isn't even a reflection of how dangerous being a senator was in wartime. Or under the Empire, where you might be killed by Darth Vader for opposing the Emperor, like Fang Zar, or get killed by an Inquisitor for moving in on their turf, like Daho Sahjan.
Gee, I wonder if all the backstabbings and trying to surpass each other also contributed to the senate being paralyzed before the new sith wars started (obvious sarcasm).
Hey man, could you do a video on the star wars black market? Like where was it, was it hidden? If it was how did they keep it hidden. What did they sell on it? Spice, weapons and what other stuff? I think it would be interesting.
Let's not forget about the assassination of Senator Vidar Kim, the attempted assassination of then Senator Palpatine, and the murder of Senator Pax Teem and the entire Gran Protectorate Embassy. It was a particularly interesting series of events since it involved a complicated matter of adding new Senators to the Senate and how the elimination of an entire Senatorial team was quickly brushed to the side and a return to business as usual.
Just show me the river Rubicon so I don't cross it with my clone army. I would hate to upset the royal purple clad Coruscanti Home Guard....oops I mean the Pretorian.
It's an absolute miracle that moral paragons like Padme, Bail Organa and Mon Mothma ever stood a chance at getting elected into the Galactic Senate. I guess in Organa's case there is the fact that the house of Organa is one of the most prominent aristocratic dynasties on Alderaan so he was likely able to afford his own election campaign and not be beholden to donors. In the case of Padme she was already widely popular in her sector owing to her term as Queen of Naboo and I figure she also factored into Palpatine's schemes... especially after Anakin fell in love with her. Mon Mothma's family was politically connected with her father being an Arbiter-General and her mother being the Governor of Chandrila. But at the end of the day, Palpatine likely had a hand in all three of them and others like them beating the odds, as he needed a divided Senate that's constantly in deadlock in order for the case for him being granted emergency powers was stronger once the Separatist Crisis came to a head.
@@ronjon7942 from where I see it, it seems to be a consortium of right wing techbros like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, media moguls like Rupert Murdoch, and think tanks funded by the likes of the Koch Brothers. Add a couple of Russian oligarchs with close ties to the Kremlin to the mix. Unlike in Star Wars, the rot that threatens to kill the Republic can't be traced to any one individual (or even two). The Sith make for a far easier enemy to point out.
Guess the CIS faced similiar issues and the assassination of Mina Bonteri was just the top of the iceberg... maybe the major difference was that senators of the CIS didn't tend to kill each other, but rather got secretly killed by Dooku's command (or anyone else on the CIS's military council), when they opposed anything the CIS did.
I now understand why Padme thought having Obi-Wan and Anakin protecting her was overkill, senators dropped like flies pretty much every month for all Coruscant knew
Galactic Republic internal issues is like a game of playing CK2, but where everyone is of a different culture, ethnicity, and not enough land. They just start slaughtering each other like starving monkeys.
Basically this video: Padme in AOTC except that shit happened ALL THE TIME to multiple senators. and let's just say they didn't have anakin skywalker protecting them.
It was a republic, not a democracy. Actually, a pure democracy is viewed as the corruption of a republic. Kinda like how an oligarchy is the corruption of an aristocracy.
Senators in a Senate Discussion = Child just trying to yell over each other. While I don't mind the politics too much and wouldn't mind seeing more on the subject, it's not what I come to Star Wars for. Cough, cough, more Battle Bbreakdwons. Couch, couch, maybe on The Battle of Cato Nemodia during the Outer Rim Sieges, cough. Sorry, had something in my throat. LOL.
And this is why shadow ops is a thing in history. Not only can they keep an eye on these fools to protect them without anyone knowing, but also take them out if they try to change things a bit too much.
Being a politician in the U.S. right now COULD be just as dangerous. Fortunately, the people who have tried to take matters into that arena have all been idiots when it comes to making plans. Our Secret Service are quite good at their jobs. 🤠👍
Not boring per se, just choosing movies as the medium for the prequels was just a horrible idea. They have enough content for a fantasy trilogy of books but it’s all a cut down hodgepodge of ideas forced into a movie.
