I was reading about Servant Leadership http://www.greenleaf.org/ . Was quite engrossed in it. I feel that politicians should more or less embrace some form of servant leadership in how they lead the country. The gist of it is to serve the people so that they are able to realize their full potential. I seen from Wiki that quite a few public organizations as well as schools practiced this. Hopefully this movement will grow and strengthen and that more political leaders practiced this rather than top down approach to ruling a country.
Servant leadership is a great concept and was taught (and personally modeled) openly by Jesus Christ, who said that He "...did not come to be served, but to serve..." (Mark 10:45). He was an extraordinary "Servant Leader".
I am somewhat sorry to say I don't think most people want this. In the States, if I were flatly honest, I think that as much as the rhetoric of campaigns goes to "I am one of you," etc., if people didn't think the individual was a true leader - could not be the embodiment of the would-be-King of the Nation - they don't get far. I think in the states, as much as our historical legacy is rejecting monarchy, I do think some atavistic part of us longs for what the French call La Gloire - the undisputed, glittering, "Leader of the Free World." There was a time - look at Jerry Brown's "populism" in California, driving an econo-car, living in a very plebeian apartment, etc. - but this was a fluke, in my opinion. We want our leaders in the Whte House to be the head of state, drinking champagne at state functions, and not beer before the T.V.; much as we cringe admitting this publically. (somewhat sorry, because to be further completely honest, I miss some trappings of La Gloire, with all its crimes and injustices, too. These, in my romantic vision, I ignore, while hailing the poetry of High Statesmanship). Shhh.