It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love democracy. I love the Republic. The power you give me, I will lay down once this crisis has abated!From science fiction, but it looks too much like these false promises out of these politicians.
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode II
I see it more as FDR advocating big government works programs to employee people, not unlike what the Nazis were doing at the time. And back then people did envy what Hitler was doing.