About "enlighted" leadership

This was a great comment:

"...ppl are so easy to manipulate. You just give them what they need to hear, see, know, feel... and you've got a totally different force. Its very tempting, to embrace this power and rule over the masses like a messiah king, the leader that they desire (heaven knows why), as if they cant lead themselves out of their imaginary 'nowhere' on their own. Isnt it funny, how people deliberately under-estimate themselves, in order to get it the easier way - when someone emerges as 'Saviour' and starts doing things on everyone's behalf? Things that they "thought doing" but never ventured to do?"

Thank you abomvubuso for always making me think.