Politics shapes the world we live in and to change the world we live in, a special people is needed, for example Napoleon Bonaparte and Fidel Castro. These two men are among the few who have taken the world they were born into and fundamentally changed it, but how exactly did they do it? Fidel Castro was born a bastard son, his father was an immigrant from northwestern Spain, and he grew up on a family farm that his father led to success. Fidel was sent to a public school where he was reprimanded for misbehaving and was sent to a prestigious private Catholic school. Napoleon was born in Corsica, an Italian island, a year before he was transferred to France, which he took as his home. His family consisted of minor Italian nobles, which gave Napoleon more opportunities for study than most people of the time. Napoleon took his education very seriously and attended a prestigious military school where he excelled in almost every subject. Fidel spent the next few years of his life in a communist organization that exposed corruption and various government misdeeds. When Fidel began receiving death threats, he refused and always carried a gun with him. Napoleon spent his later years fighting in a three-way struggle in his homeland of Corsica and publishing pro-republican pamphlets. Shortly after the end of the conflict in Corsica, Napoleon was sent to Italy to conquer Sardinia for France. Fidel took part in the revolutions in Cuba from 1947 to 1950 and was severely beaten in some of the early clashes with some of the bodyguards of government officials. After the failure of the first rebellions he went to Colombia and took part in the communist revolution there, before returning to Cuba as a well-known and prestigious figure. He got married to an upper middle class person... from paper... idel is mostly detested throughout the world, except communist countries, for his brutal treatment of protestors. Although it remains popular in Cuba with its universal healthcare system and with many of its massive public works projects underway to this day. Both demonstrate that the only way to take and stay in power is through public support, even if misuse of the military can lead to your demise and economic sanctions can destroy your country. The ideals of a revolution can spread and influence more than the country in which it was organized. Both of these two prove that people are the greatest and most effective weapon any politician can wield and as long as the people support you, it doesn't matter the mistakes or failures. you can continue to govern. Through propaganda or military victories one can keep public opinion high, and propaganda is much more reliable.