“We’re in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have no idea what’s happening. There’s no connection, no Wi-Fi, no reporters. We’re cut off from everything.. People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner. The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on. You can’t reach anyone, even if they’re only 500 meters away. Ambulances and medics are begging reporters to let them know which streets are getting bombarded to go rescue the victims but the reporters themselves don’t know where anything is happening [because of the connection loss]. We are trying to report the news but we have no idea what’s happening.”
I believe we often forget Anakin is bassically describing the Jedi Council to Padme
“If the partys involved don´t agree( jedi masters/senators) then someone WISE should make them agree(Yoda)”
At no point is he considering himself the person wise to lead the republic, he is just talking from his experience living at the temple of how THEY deal with that kind of situation.
Lest also remember than unlike Senators the Jedi Council place in the Order is for life so Anakin truly didn´t see something wrong with that if they were managing things well, compared to his other experiences with goverments, The Hutts".
Padmé herself was a Queen with almost absolute power even if it was temporal over her planet and the Republic recognizes Kingdoms with life long monarchs like Bail and Breah Organa or Satine Kryze.
I do understand we have to see this scene as Palpatine´s influence showing it´s head on Anakin´s pov in poltitics given he just talked to him before going with Padme to protect her but tbh it´s perfectly legit for him to have this perception when he is seeing how corrupt and slow is the Senate and how those goverments like the Jedi, Alderaan, Mandalore seem to get agreetments quicker. Lest also remember he knows by Palpatine the Senate can´t hardly agree to enforce their laws in the outer rim and that´s one of the reasons slavery is still a thing in many of those areas.
We mostly are to listen to Padme because she represents Palpatine´s oppsite but Anakin wasn´t talking about a dictatorship on Ep II, he was describing goverments he already has seen at play.
