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Star Wars has always been a leftie fantasy

20 December 2017

3:48 PM

20 December 2017

3:48 PM

The latest of the Disney “Star Wars” franchise is out, and it’s already dividing the audiences – and not just on its artistic and storytelling merits. Scanning the media commentary, one gets the impression the “long time ago in a galaxy far far away” saga is getting increasingly political, which some fans love and others hate, depending on where they stand in real life in relation to the type of political injected into the Jedi-Sith struggle.

As CNN reports (spoilers alert):

Pop culture can hardly avoid politics anymore, especially in the case of a huge target like “Star Wars.”

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