“yes it is unfortunately a statement of fact that there is a dearth of tzaddikim On THAT LEVEL TODAY.”
Before I just say what all of us would really really like to say in response to this comment, let me try to respond in a calm manner that won’t get you so worked up.
Within the last year, in what I would call rapid succession, we saw the deaths of HaRav Shteinman, HaRav Auerbach, The Vishnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, Mattersdorfer Ruv, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m forgetting others as there were just so many. The way you are speaking makes it sound like those are all just no big deal to you. I don’t even think you mentioned it in your “dark times before geula” statements at the beginning.
There is no way a person could be a direct follower of all of the rabbis mentioned above, yet the greater frum velt felt the blow of every single one of them. Obviously, each individual will feel more affected by the loss of the rabbi whom he or she follows, but you empathize with your fellow yid.
As a Lubavitcher, it is your right–and expectation even–to consider the Chabad Rebbe the gadol hador of his generation. Therefore, it is expected that you would mourn his death on a more personal level than other great rabbis; this is all fine. However, what is not fine is for you to tell the rest of us that we should mourn more for your rebbe than our own, and that your rebbe’s superiority over our’s is a “statement of fact,” to use your own words.
I don’t know if this has ever been explained to you directly because I think we all assumed it went without saying: our gedolim are to us as your rebbe was to you. When you put them down and claim that they’re inferior, it will invoke the same emotions from us as it would from you if we were to put down the rebbe (if anything even stronger emotions at this time given how many we have lost recently).