And one final addition–this isn’t to say that the Jedi are absolved all responsibility, of course they had a responsibility to hold their elected leaders accountable, just as everyone else in the galaxy did, that they were part of the galaxy, they were just as obligated as everyone else to do their part.
The point I’m getting at, though, is that Palpatine’s victory was done far more through politics (and Padme’s iconic line supports that), that he could have achieved basically the same exact things if he weren’t Force-sensitive at all, and considering his victory in that light and “how do you fight that kind of thing?”, the answer isn’t “with magic powers!” but with “the GFFA public getting its shit together and actually holding their leaders accountable”.
Can you make the argument that Mace killing Palpatine would have solved the problem? Eh, sort of. Mace did try to go there to arrest him, but the thing was that Palpatine was right, he was the Senate, he couldn’t be stopped without a massive change to the system that was clearly not going to happen, so would killing him with space wizard powers have stopped the evil? Sort of, I guess? But Palpatine’s machinations were based on political shit that was already there, killing him would allow for a chance at healing, but it’s not like Palpatine was the source of the Senate’s greed. They were already like that when he got there. His death would not have been the end of that. Only holding those elected officials in the Senate accountable would be the end of that corruption, not anything to do with space wizard powers.
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