Cardlo Ren
After the fall of the Empire, the Republic feared power so much that it stagnated. This allowed the war lords and criminals to rule as they wanted in the Outer Rim. Before the First Order took me in as a teenager, I was nothing more than a scrap orphan on Jakku. I don’t just know of the failings and sins of the Republic, Kylo Ren, I felt those failings in the hunger pains of my stomach, the callouses on my hands. I’ve seen things and experiences things that have broken greater men than you.
I won’t be lectured on the sins of the Republic by someone who never felt them. Someone who exploited the weaknesses of the senate for their own gain, not the good of others. Don’t package and sell my suffering to me as thought it ever meant anything to you.