Democracy, Leadership, Power

To lead is to perform an act with the intention of setting an example.  To follow, therefore, is to imitate an example.  Thus, the essence of Democracy is the Leader-Follower relation, in which, qua ordered, the terms are unequal, while qua involving the performance of the same type of act, they are equal.  Now, the causality that generates the sequence can be characterized as Inspiration, a power which seems to escape Nietzsche's notice.  So, while positing that the Will to Power is essentially Oligarchical, on the basis of his focus on Conqueror-Conquered Domination-Submission relations, he misses the possibility of a manifestation of it in which a Democracy is potentially stronger than an Oligarchy.