If you keep obsessing about leaders and followers you will continue to flounder.
The people that came to start this country were neither.
You have been conditioned by social media and the "enlightened to live like frightened sheep.
Learn to stand on your own two feet and follow a path you think worthwhile.
You don't want to be controlled by others but want leaders?
You don;t want to follow others but you collect follower on social media
That mind set didn't exist 20+ years ago in this country, and had many of us baffled by the immaturity of these generations.
Parents healthcare plans until 26?
Living at home with your parents into adulthood
Need constant entertainment and amusement.
Those are the signs of a society committing suicide, and there are plenty of people outside the US that will glad;y come in and take over the rotting shell