Come in to my forest and I may just munch on you for lunch!

Have you ever said 'What can I do alone? How can I change things by myself?"
Can one person change the world? Sure they can! It's been proven  many times throughout history. Look at Hitler, Stalin, Alexander the great, Jesus , Joan of Arc. What makes a man or a women great? What made  people follow them? They are all different. Some positive, some negative but all inspired people to lay down their lives.
People probably followed Jesus because went against the status quo (yes folks, Jesus was a rebel kind of like Martin Luther) and preached a message of love and compassion..him I understand. And Joan of Arc claimed her mission was from God so that I get too..kind of. But Alexander  inspired people to fight in bloody wars for conquest, and Hitler  motivated people to do horrible things to  millions of people!Why?
I've read some of Hitlers writings...I was not inspired. But then again I'm not prejudiced. Does it take a certain "mindset" to follow certain people?
Lets look at Jesus. Who followed Jesus and why? Well, they were mostly, but not totally the poor , widowed and the outcast. The religious leaders and priests did not welcome his arrival and it appears when it came down to it most everyone abandoned him except his mother and Mary Magdalene.But martyrdom caused his population to rise once again and the message went on and was spread amongst the populace but still rejected amongst the religious leaders.
Hitler, on the other end of the spectrum, appealed to people through their hate, prejudice and bigotry. He fanned the flames their hatred and was able to make them think they were doing the right thing by torturing and annihilating the Jews  and others!
I wish I could say that people of love and faith can not be inspired to do wicked things but look at the Christian holy wars, the Salem witch trials, Jim Jones , Fred Phelps and the Branch Dividian.
I can't help but think people are just looking for a band wagon to jump on regardless where it's going!
Apparently we love to fight, we love conflict and drama. Just look which posts make it to the top blog and get tons of reply's....the ones with the most conflict!
Are we twisted, evil or what? Send me some feed back thinkers!