Flash forward to today's Disney Star Wars trash, there is nothing but hostility and hatred toward the United States. This is especially true for Caucasian races and other Patriotic people.
Lucas has truly gone from being a great voice for science fiction to absolute hatred and contempt for all of mankind.
That was PR. According to his 1971 development notes as well as his own statements at the time and those of Walter Murch, he specifically modeled the Empire after us Americans, and the Rebels if anything were meant to be the Vietcong (and worse, tastelessly implied that the American Minutemen were exactly like the Vietcong).
If you wonder why I root for the Empire now instead of the Rebel Alliance (I rooted for the Rebels as a kid partly BECAUSE I thought they were meant to be Americans. Lucas crushed that view back in 2012.), that’s why. I don’t like rooting for Communists, ESPECIALLY if I only did so due to being tricked. And it looks like you fell for it as well.
He always had absolute hatred and contempt for all of mankind. He just hid it well.