The First Debates: Seeking Approval from Emperor Palpatine

The Empire's reorganization was the epitome of political and social manipulation. Now, the American public is seeking it's own Moff--or Governor in English, to rule over the USA. As of today, there have been a complete set of Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates. I will examine both and give a verdict on the winners of each set of debates.

Remember, the point these debates are to influence the voters, whether it be already decided voters or undecided voters. So, with out adieu, cue the Star Wars main theme and let's begin the analysis!

The Presidential Debate:
The much anticipated meet came out as expected. Within about 30 minutes, the devolution of the candidates began. First, we must accept that the first 30 minutes were in the Trump favor, hitting hard the record of over 20 plus years of service, both as First Lady through to her tenure as Sec. of State. These moments, should have played out for the Trump playbook for the entire 90 minute strategy, yet, when Clinton began the race-baiting attack, Trump folded like the younglings in the training room to Darth Vader. The attacks began, back and forth, both hinting at grave errors from both candidates. Very little policy was discussed from either candidate as it was the "how much more baiting can I deliver to my enemy. It remains to be seen if any real damage can be done to the Trump campaign over his remarks, as the Republican Primary season specifically pointed out those very issues and he still won the Primary for the RNC. Clinton's missed opportunities were to maintain her "policy driven" debate. She should have stuck to calling upon her policy and asking if Trump's policy had a better solution, which it would have shown that it doesn't hold up much. Trump's missed opportunities were to stay away from the race-baiting charges and to focus on showing the voters how Clinton's policy is the exact same as every single failed idea. He should have continued his attack on her "establishment" nature and failure to push or fix the issues now, which she has alluded to in her own remarks that things are bad. In the end, Clinton did come out on top with this debate, because she outsmarted Trump into goading him into needless issues and didn't focus on the larger picture.

The Vice-Presidential Debate:
While not many were expected to watch this, the debate did highlight a few specific things. One being, despite Democratic hatred towards Mike Pence of Indiana, his manner towards the onslaught attacks from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va). He outsmarted the attacks with warm platitudes and a response in least aggressive and antagonistic responses. It's clear Kaine was attempting to rattle Pence and fish for reactions much like Trump's in the first debate. Pence denied Kaine any real ammunition for attack. Kaine ultimately was too agressive and to antagonistic to really impact the high bump in Clinton's rating spike in most polls + forecast in FiveThirtyEight assessment of the first debate. Regardless, Kaine seemed less likely to speak about policy and its direction under his tenure at the Senate, as I expected to hear. Even in the most conservative of assessments of this debate would not had Kaine a likely win, in fact, he seemed more "Trump" like in this debate, and maybe it's a tactic to show calm in Clinton over a presiding officer of a Senate that has an equal chance of staying in the control of Republicans. Overall, Pence had a slight marginal win in a debate over much of the debate while Kaine flopped on many chances to attack and left his vulnerabilities to open for attack, either direct or indirect.


It should be noted, that this analysis is comprised of only events prior to the Oct. 7 video release of the Trump audio/video debacle, 

Who Would Emperor Palpatine Choose: Clinton or Trump?

“Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy, and we shall have peace,” the Emperor uttered right before Jedi Temple was sacked and the Separatist Council was eliminated by his agent of evil, Darth Vader. The political climate of the pre-Galactic Empire, was utter turmoil, both with Separatist planets and Republic planets still believing that their goals were to be met by their armies.

Over the course of the next 19 to 26 years, the Empire would shed its Republic notions and legal framework and begin to see the final stages of an Imperial government. By A New Hope, the Emperor dissolved the Imperial Senate and thus ushering in the era of peace long desired by the Republic and its adherent bodyguards, Jedi. While the Empire is regarded among most of the Star Wars fanatics as evil and diabolical, it does warrant merits of the ushering in peace and justice—just not the way the Jedi Council and Republic Loyalists would have argued and petitioned.

If we meld our world into the Star Wars universe, we’d probably be living in the Mid Rim, Outer Rim or the Unknown Regions. Suffice it to say, let’s posit that we’re in the more approachable Mid Rim, where our loyalties lay with the Confederacy of Independent Systems and say we’re close to Kashyyyk. After Order 66 and the subsequent elimination of the Separatist Council leaders, our planet is invaded by Imperial forces, and with their clone army and vast superior force, we fold. (Also, we must meld our planet into a single body of governance, so for arguments sake, we have a one world government.)

The great question of our time: who would Emperor Palpatine chose to control Earth, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Now before you begin to shout one over the other, we have to take into account the politics and nature of the Imperial “New Order” program and just how each candidate would fit into the “New Order.”

Let’s take Donald Trump first. Some of the more key components for the Emperor wanting Trump would be for his favoring the military and its capacity to function, as such, his spending would encourage a larger Imperial Navy and Army. His immigration policies would also be a key factor as the Emperor believed in forced slavery of any species that wasn’t human. In as much as we can gather, the social issues aren’t much of a concern as the knowledge of what actually takes place in their society (i.e. marriage, same-sex marriage, abortion, pay, jobs, etc.) We do know that healthcare is provided, prior to the Clone Wars, and this Trumps health plans would not be in alignment with the Emperor’s. We’d also have to believe that the Emperor would somewhat favor Trump in criminal issues as the Internal Security Bureau would have almost the same capacity of an enlarged quasi-FBI-CIA-KGB mix agency to do with terrorists and enemies of the State.

The Emperor would probably agree more with Clinton on her domestic policies of restriction of guns, the “No-Fly” list ban for guns. She’d also be in agreement with the taxation of specific economic classes, and supporting a general standard of education throughout the planet in accordance with Imperial Law. However, while we cannot say for certain how much the Emperor would allow for Clinton to be a Moff, since we cannot ascertain whether or not the society itself would have allowed it. Yet, she would be loyal to the Emperor and would be more easily controlled Moff. Her foreign policy and immigration stance would not be in agreement with the Emperor’s and would therefore be very problematic. Her and Trump would gain points for the application of the Death penalty, as the ISB would be using this most along with the Imperial Navy for rebellious planets who did not agree with Imperial rule of law.

I would say that while each of the candidates have just an equal amount of merits and demerits as candidate for Moff, the Emperor would probably chose neither in the end. In fact, I’d believe that Trump would be executed by the ISB for not following Imperial orders. I also believe that Hillary would be replaced due to her continual pushes to change the stances for the planet, or by certain unrest planet wide in which the Emperor would send more troops to quell the rebellion and execute her for her ineptitude and inability to squash the rebellion herself.