Just from a story telling perspective, there isn’t really much to a tale of the establishment crushing a resistance center from the pov of the establishment. They’re in the advantageous position, people like when heros overcome obstacles which means they need yo have obstacles not be the obstacle. What kind of ending would you even have? Some disconnected suits breath a sigh of relief while cops mow down people in the streets to a John Williams score? Yeah, sounds like a real winner there. Protagonists are generally underdogs so there can be a story that happens.

i told some lib friends recently that star wars was about the vietnam war, and the rebels were the vietcong.

They were absolutely gobsmacked and didn’t believe me until we looked up the george lucas/joseph campbell quotes