I‘ve been called dorkofascist for pointing out that the complaints we hear in the Star Wars films about the Galactic Republic aren’t particularly beyond the pale: Namely that the Republic had grown too big and sclerotic to be governable and responsive to the needs of individual planets. Now here’s a hippie Vermonster talking about why Vermont should secede from the United States: “The argument for secession is that the U.S. has become an empire that is essentially ungovernable–it’s too big, it’s too corrupt and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens.” Sounds like someone is channeling the “evil” Count Dooku, Senator Palpatine’s insidious Dark Side apprentice. In Attack of the Clones we are told of Dooku, a former Jedi, that

Later in the movie, Dooku argues about secession with Senator Amidala, saying: