Jedi Knights Suck

I know that most people will immediately disagree, but I advise to watch the Star Wars movies again and pay attention to the politics involved:

How did the whole mess in the galaxy start?
By the Senate imposing a tax on trade routes!

This was in direct breach of the franchises the Trade Federation had purchased from the Senate. In other words, the Senate tried to grab a cut from something that had already been paid, also referred to as breach of contract.

How did the Trade Federation respond?
With a blockade of an outlying planet, to protest the newly imposed taxes, which was permissible under rules of the franchise agreement.

What did the Senate do?
Send Jedi Knights to force a settlement. In other words, the Supreme Chancellor was trying to use state power to enforce an illegal contract.

Against this backdrop, the rebellion unfolds. And it is a rebellion where the rebels are displayed as the bad guys, as the ones who are against democracy, while the democratic Senate is trying to use force to keep the free planets in the fold of democracy.
Weird huh?

Next, the Jedi are essentially a religion, similar to warrior monk orders.
This means that the democratic Senate routinely uses religeous figures to 'keep the peace'.
Whatever happened to seperation between church and state?

The Trade Federation and their allies, the Corporate Alliance, Bankers' Guild etc. are moreover portrayed not only as cowards, but are also visually unappealing. Talking about brain washing.
Fact is however, the Rebels are taking a huge risk by not doing the Senate's bidding and facing down the Jedi Cult. And despite all that, tens of thousands of planets are likely to join the Rebellion. In other words, "The People" are fed up with the bureaucracy!

And despite the fact that the Senate is trying to use force against anyone who is not complying, they have the nerve claiming to be democratic.

Furthermore, from the fact that the Naboo are claimed to be starving by the hundreds on a planet that looks clearly agrarian, we can deduce that the Trade Federation has been instrumental in feeding those lazy-heads prior to the blockade.

In light of the above it becomes clear that the Senate was well aware that thousands would die if the Trade Federation resisted a tax on trade routes, and yet they went ahead.

Afterwards everyone blames everything on the future emperor and on corruption.

But why doesn't anyone wonder how all the bad guys were former Jedi Knights?
How come one of the Jedi Masters had an army built for the Republic long before the problem arose and caught the Rebels (and future Emperor?) by surprize?
Lastly, with all their respect for life, why did the Jedi condone the use of clones, rather than do what the alleged bad guys did, build battle bots?

Frankly, given a choice, I'd rather live under the Trade Federation.