the representative systems in use in the West, proxied their political interest to elected officials. This allows the toiler to subsist and focus on the immediate world and immediate needs.
Leadership is in a very real sense, the combination of the profane, the fecund and the spiritual.
Look into Winston Churchill and his idea of a good leader. The Internet is a good source of information to discover what Churchill has to say about the concept of leadership and how he was a leader himself.