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[Star Wars: Episode 3] What if the Jedi weren't stupid?

What if the Jedi challenged Palpatine in front of the Senate instead of confronting him in his private office where he could make up his own version of what happened later?

What if the Jedi sent a representative to question IN PUBLIC why he hadn't relinquished his war powers now that the war was over?

If he was challenged by the Jedi straight up, it would be much harder to justify Order 66.
"Well, they were going to make a move against me!" "Because you refused to give up your war powers, we all saw it."

Whats more, now that the war was over why didn't they call in the Separatist leaders and ask them who put them up to it? You don't think Nute Gunray would roll over on Palpatine immediately?

Additionally, Palpatine flat out admitted to Anakin he was a Sith Lord. If Windu had taken Anakin to the Senate to accuse him publicly, Palpatine would have been double fucked.
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"Not being stupid" would have resulted in a divergence from the actual chain of events a lot earlier than that confrontation in the office!

If the Jedi weren't stupid, they would have investigated the Trade Federation's contacts a lot more thoroughly after the initial Naboo incident and possibly have dug up Palpatine right then and there.

If they weren't stupid, they'd have monitored Anakin's training more closely (he was outside the usual age bracket *and* being trained by a first-time Jedi Master, circumstances that should have demanded better oversight) and picked up on his dissatisfaction, possibly changing their approach to his training to make things work out better for him.

If they weren't stupid they wouldn't have sent him to guard Amidala alone when he clearly had a personal connection with her.

If they weren't stupid they would have been much more wary of the clone army that was handed to them under *intensely* suspicious circumstances, at the very least investigating their training programs and discovering Order 66 before it was invoked.

If they weren't stupid they would have realized that their talents were best suited to the roles of special ops and intelligence gathering and fewer of them would have wasted themselves trying to be super-soldiers or generals in mass combat situations. Or at the very least they'd have been more pragmatic in combat and made use of ranged weapons.

Frankly, if they weren't stupid they would have realized that the whole "Jedi must not feel anything toward anyone" philosophy was a disaster waiting to happen. It's a denial of basic human (and other sentient) nature and has never worked out for any religion ever.

But by that point in history the Jedi order had spent thousands of years with nothing to challenge their navel-gazing, so it's not surprising they'd gone rather stupid. The Sith basically just waited them out.