I completely agree. The "Galactic Senate" or whatever it was called was the total embodiment of the United Nations - hypocritical, inefficient and bloodly stinkin' useless.
When Padme's planet was being brought to its knees in Episode I, what did the Senate do? Not one thing except form a committee.
Anakin Skywalker was a SLAVE. His mother was a SLAVE. Pretty much every civilization that we encountered in THREE MOVIES was some sort of dictatorship. Where's all this "democracy"?
Is there ANY more elitist group in the history of the universe than the Jedi Council? They got what they had coming.
"Is there ANY more elitist group in the history of the universe than the Jedi Council?"
Well, maybe the U.S. Senate, or the CFR, or the Trilateral Commission...
But then those groups only try to run ONE planet. : )