Modern democracy or one from the flea market?

Being just is being in conformity with what is upright and good. People will join in hordes to support a cause that is just and no power on earth can turn around the will of such people. History is filled with such examples where if there was a just cause to stand up and fight for, people stood up for it and fought and didn't allow it to be shelved. Leaders are important because they are the creators of such ideas that appeal and the cause of which is just. Leaders publicise it and promote it and when that idea gets insulated by the will of the people it becomes difficult to crack it and break it.

All isms have been but ideas, and mankind has been searching for the best ways to live and rule themselves. From the clash between the church and the crown to the creation of empires and their dismemberment into nation states, mankind could never get tired of finding the best ways of living as a community, society and states. Not long ago, fascist states were ruled by autocratic leaders who imposed world wars on us and only in these two world wars over 100 million people died. These men and women did not willingly lose their lives, they sacrificed it to ensure that we could live in a better world. Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot have never been considered as leaders who could be praised as heroes. History always remembers them as villains that wanted to create their kind of world dictated by their world view of creation of fascist regimes and a fascist world in which their rule would remain unopposed and unchallenged.

Greatness emerges when it is exposed to a tough and competitive opposition. At personal level the greatest athlete of 20th Century, Muhammad Ali would never have become such a great boxer and a world champion (not once but twice) if he didn't have such remarkably able, competent and professional boxers such as Joe Frazier and George Foreman to fight against and beat. And at the level of empires and states, Ottoman Empire wouldn't have ruled for over 600 years after it conquered Constantinople in 1523, if it didn't have another powerful empire such as Byzantine to confront with and defeat. One may also not forget that it was the idea of the Caliph of that time to choose to fight on the German side in the World War-I that led to Ottoman Empire's eventual defeat and dismemberment. That idea was not insulated by the will of the people but came down as a personal dictate by a ruler whose political idea, imagination, assumption and...