Ask yourself "Why do we depend on leaders in the first place?"

[frazzled]

1. I don't

But I do depend on living in an organized society. Things need to be accomplished if we live together in a society, and having it organized has always worked better than having no organization (read: anarchy). Even the most remote tribes in general have some sort of organization.

So if I want an electrical grid and safe food and some degree of protection from fire and crime, and ways to travel (safely) and gain access to other parts of the country and world, and to live in a civil society that both protects my rights and affords rights to others so that they are not so miserable that they make me miserable --I can't do all this myself.

So I participate in what we call a democracy here. And that means electing representatives. No one of them, even the ones I vote for, can achieve everything. They can't definitively end poverty forever or make every kid smart or reverse climate change overnight. They can only keep chipping away at the problems and hopefully keep moving in the right direction. And so I make decisions about which ones might be better chippers than others. And I don't expect any of them to be my "leader" or absolve me of my responsibility to take actions. I expect them to represent my interests in various ways in the complex dealings that running a vast and complicated society requires. Because I can't build a road or airport, and I can't fund all the elderly people, and I can't educate all the children. We have to do it together. And, no, I don't depend on "leaders": I depend on those of us who vote for the representatives who can help do all this stuff the best, with all the messy failure that entails.