LogFAQs > #955884432

I thought that was why Yoda kind of self-exiled himself for like 20+ years.

Not to mention the Jedi are already basically a faction that's taking young kids in tune with the force away from their families and raising them to be emotionless soldiers in an invisible war.

Though its also worth mentioning that Palpatine was given total authority in the first movie, and kept it until Revenge of the Sith before dissolving the senate and making himself emperor, so everyone was really resting on their laurels on that one.