Western gundam fandom tends to have brainworms. The federation are the baddies, guys. Zeon sucks, but Tomino very much intends the status quo to be bad. It gets pushed to the margins sometimes so you can sell toys, but the colony system is, in fact, bad. You take late 20th century capitalism and export it to space. guess what? The problems still exist. Gundam fans who think Bright Noa is an epic cool guy probably follow Elon Musk on twitter.