At least Star Trek remains unsullied by politics

Pastime?

And the Andor series is literally a class on fascism. Things presented there are inspired by real world events. The second season in particular makes it REALLY clear. You literally have the Empire conspiring with media to produce propaganda to undermine the Ghorman people so the Empire can come in and steal the planet's resources and kill the people. Then the Empire stages a massacre and uses it as further propaganda

Except the rebels want to restore a democracy in the Original Trilogy.

Technically, it's never stated which form of government (if any) the rebellion wants to create after the empire is gone.

[whooosh but TIE fighter sounds]

Stay on target!

Wait you're telling me the gays aren't just doing gay to upset the illiterate bible thumpers?

Ah yes. The classic "lolololol I was just kidding and you fell for it lolololol" excuse.

What an insufferable cunt. It’s because people like him why people hate nerds

Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.

sounds way too familiar 😭

Even if you missed that, you probably picked up that it is against war and imperialism.

Ewoks were definitely a nod to the Viet Cong

I don't know if George Lucas was meaning to tap into parallelisms with the Vietnam War with the original Star Wars movie.

I mean, the plot follows the Campbellian "Hero with 1000 faces" storyline to a T.

But I also acknowledge that the Vietnam War was a major event that was going on when he was writing it and filming it, so it most likely had influence at the very least, but I believe it can be argued that Lucas was not attempting to insinuate the Empire was the United States at that time.

At the same time, though, I can see a very clear slant in the storyline that an independent society has every right to consider themselves heroes when going up against a larger, seemingly indomitable force that is doing evil while proclaiming themselves to be the good.