We don't need a leader. Stop looking for a leader because this is exactly what empowers those who hold other intentions. Start talking with people around you, neighbors, friends, co-workers. Let everything out on the table, nothing is held back, discuss it out and then start solving problems right where you live. Once people see their own empowerment locally works far better than some distant face on a TV screen who sez one thing and does another, things will start to change for the better.
Not that I would ever take the job but I live several thousand miles from you so how is it I will know every detail and need of what you and your community needs? I can't. The only thing I can do is lie my arse off to con you out of your vote and then lie again and again once elected to make you think you are getting what was promised while your world rots around you. This is why regardless which party wins on election day the only thing that changes is everything just gets worse.
Think and act local because if it starts to go wrong, it's quicker and easier to change and the clown doing it just lives down the street and because of that fact he also thinks twice about screwing you over. It's not perfect, never will be but face up to what we are getting right now and where we are at. This was done by both parties regardless of the ideology they claim to hold.