Most people aren't leaders though, so even if they wanted to throw their hat in the ring, they'd just botch things and make some blunder that their enemies would capitalize on to further cement power. Frankly I think the lack of individuals with capacity for leadership might be a cultural issue and an engineered one at that. In the average person's formative years, how much opportunity is there to really develop such a set of skills and how much cultural importance do we place on nurturing that? Very little I would say. Our whole public education system is designed to crank out mindless drones for the corporate world who do as they are told and learn how to do the telling or any of the associated personal development required for genuine leadership.