It just bums me out how much of SW fandom clearly doesnât appreciate the levels of magnificent bastardy that Palpatine achieved as a villain when they bitch about so much being the Jedi Orderâs fault. As if the Jedi should have just looked harder under some couch cushions and then they would have found the solid evidence they could use to go after him and the Senate.
Palpatine was too smart for that! No Sith lord had ever aimed so high and achieved so much, and he only did it by playing a long game that started before Anakin was even born. People have to understand that when Dooku tells Obi-Wan that a Sith controls the Senate, thatâs hard for him to believe because it is absolutely ridiculous and hard to believe! The Jedi donât understand why the dark side clouds their awareness because the Sith have become masterful at hiding their presence, which was not the case throughout known history. It would truly be like hearing that Bidenâs administration actually are all Satanists who traffic and eat children. Palpatineâs extremely powerful and cunning and unlike anything theyâre used to dealing with, otherwise they might seriously consider that Sidious could have accomplished this without the Jedi having any idea. And where do you even begin investigating such a thing when itâs been covered up so well?
The Jedi were always gonna be outmatched against someone like Sidious because a Sithâs whole thing is amassing wealth, influence, and power, and Sidious was probably the best there ever was at it. The Jedi are the opposite, theyâre not meant to have those things, and Sidious ended up with too much control of the government for them to have any real power to act. (Probably even if they had complete knowledge of everything, which they never did.) It makes sense that just a couple Sith can bring âimbalanceâ to the Force when you consider that the use of the dark side is inherently an imbalance of power and a destructive influence in the world this way.
You donât have to scapegoat anyone else. Palpatine needed his apprentice and other pawns to move around but he really did almost all of it himself. He worked so hard and deserves the hate for his efforts, he really was that bad. :(
