Hate to break the news to you but Star Wars was fictional, Darth was a guy wearing a plastic helmet.
Sheeesh!!!!!!!!!!!!
No wonder Clinton got re-elected
Its a metaphor, the purpose of which is to point out that Empires are Bad things that freedom loving Americans dont like.
You might want to recall such useful historical tidbits like:
To sum up: Empire=Bad
I hope that clears things up for you.
So was 1984....
BTW, it's almost uncanny how so much of the science fiction written over the last decades has evolved into fact....
Anyway, I think we can draw on history to prove the point.
It's just that now the prospects are Orwellian.