You don't get it. Star Wars was never supposed to be overtly political.
Politics, especially the machinations that Palpatine employs to rise from Senator to Emperor, are a major aspect of the story of Episodes I-III, so that statement is literally objectively false.
The dissolution of the Senate occurs even as an event under discussion in Episode IV, the very first film. Fear and the tactics of strongmen and warlords are explicitly referenced as tools that the Empire will be using in its effort to maintain control in the resulting power vacuum. The novelization of the original film opened with a prologue about Palpatine's rise to power.
Politics has overtly and explicitly been a central element of the franchise since before the first film was released and ever since.
On the other hand, if you're somehow trying to say that any connection to the real world is wholly unintended, then that's wrong too. Others have raised points I won't repeat, except as addressed in the quoted matter below. But there's also the eerie parallel between what was going on in the movie theater with respect to how Palpatine was taking over the Republic by suspending normal order during a period of war and the ways in which civil rights were being thrown under the bus during the early part of the War on Terror.
Here's Lucas in his own words about this:
Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that current events might parallel his space fantasy.
"As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things," Lucas said at a Cannes news conference. "I hope this doesn't come true in our country.
"Maybe the film will waken people to the situation," Lucas joked.
That comment echoes Moore's rhetoric at Cannes last year, when his anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the festival's top honor.
Unlike Moore, whose Cannes visit came off like an anybody-but-Bush campaign stop, Lucas never mentioned the president by name but was eager to speak his mind on U.S. policy in Iraq, careful again to note that he created the story long before the Bush-led occupation there.
"When I wrote it, Iraq didn't exist," Lucas said, laughing.
"We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. We were going after Iran and using him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam. ... The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable."
The prequel trilogy is based on a back-story outline Lucas created in the mid-1970s for the original three "Star Wars" movies, so the themes percolated out of the Vietnam War and the Nixon-Watergate era, he said.
Lucas began researching how democracies can turn into dictatorships with full consent of the electorate.
In ancient Rome, "why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew?" Lucas said. "Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.
"You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/2/
That's page 2 of:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/
From page 1:
Cannes audiences made blunt comparisons between "Revenge of the Sith," the story of Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the rise of an emperor through warmongering, to President Bush's war on terrorism and the invasion of Iraq.
Two lines from the movie especially resonated:
"This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause," bemoans Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) as the galactic Senate cheers dictator-in-waiting Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) while he announces a crusade against the Jedi.
"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy," Hayden Christensen's Anakin (soon to become villain Darth Vader) tells former mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). The line echoes Mr. Bush's international ultimatum after the Sept. 11 attacks, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
So, yeah, not only is it supposed to be political, but also there's a definite deliberate intention that it exhibit both commonly recurring themes in history and a resemblance to recent periods in a way that's applicable to contemporary situations, of which in fact it happens to be shockingly prescient.
Your statement is therefore wrong any way you read it.
