padawanlost:

californianxwitch
replied to your post “I believe this whole “having all the necessary tools at hand but not…”

to be fair i think her meeting the skywalkers was definitely the beginning of her disillusionment with the republic, i think she viewed the republic abandoning them as being connected with the republic abandoning her people and used those two points of evidence to conclude that the republic was broken.
like she never actually said ‘the republic was
fine’ because she didn’t have to actually deal with the republic until
she does the vote of no confidence am i wrong ?              

Nope. Padmé
was never disillusioned with the Republic, at least not until the final part of
ROTS. She was groomed from a very early age to be a politician and yet had no
idea slavery still existed. That doesn’t sound like someone too aware of the
evil of the Republic. I understand she was only 14 years old (each makes me question
logic behind elect children to rule an entire planet but I digress).

No, she
never said “the Republic is fine” out loud but we can see she believed it was
fine (or least as fine as it could be) by her actions.  When it
comes to Padmé’s political and personal life, there’s a gap between TPM and AOTC
so we don’t know for sure how she felt but we do know that in AOTC she still
strongly believes in the Republic to the point she rejected populism and accused
Anakin of having authoritarian ideals for wanting to change the current system.
Same thing happens when Bail’s tries talks about removing the Chancellor.

“None of us
likes where anything is going,” Bail said, half rising. “That’s exactly the
point. We can’t let a thousand years of democracy disappear without a fight!”
“A fight?” Padmé said. “I can’t believe what I’m hearing—Bail, you sound like a Separatist!” [Matthew Stover. Revenge of the Sith]

“I’m not
sure I was ready.” “The people you served thought you did a good job,” Anakin
reminded her. “I heard they tried to amend the constitution so that you could
stay in office.” “Popular rule is not
democracy, Anakin. It gives the people what they want, not what they need. And
truthfully, I was relieved when my two terms were up.” [R.A. Salvatore. Attack
of the Clones]

“We must
keep our faith in the Republic,” [Jamillia] declared. “The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.”
“Let’s pray that day never comes,” Padmé quietly answered. [R.A. Salvatore.
Attack of the Clones]

Imo, that
doesn’t sound like a person disillusioned with the Republic at all or someone
who has been deeply affect by the days she spent living with slaves. And we
know she never made the connection between slavery and Republic failing because
she never did anything to fight slavery even after she married a former slave.

look, I
love Padmé but there’s nothing in canon that supports the theory that she was
troubled by the state of the democratic system (she was against what the government
was doing but she wasn’t against the government itself) or that her adventures
in Tatooine made her change her political views. She had such faith in the
Republic she only realized it was truly dead when Palpatine declared the
Empire.

The people
who were disillusioned with the Republic were sitting in the Separatist Senate.
They were the ones who recognized the Republic had died long a go and that it
no longer served the interest of all its citizens, only the elites. Padmé was
not one of these people.

Btw, she
did have to deal with Senate before her trip to Coruscant in TPM. Before she
fled the planet she was communicating directly with Valorum and, as queen, she
was Palpatine’s superior and was in charge of what he did in the Senate. So she
definitely knew how the Senate operated.