"The "leaders" themselves are never attacked."

I took a quick look at a history book. I see that leaders are tarred and feathered, ran out of town on a rail, and hanged by the neck until dead with serial regularity. I guess they keep taking advantage once they seize power in a revolution, keep taking more, and more, until people get tired of overlords, get behind some charismatic speaker and overwhelm the massive security forces surrounding overlords and kill them all, replacing them with new ones, same as the old ones.

I note that today technological advance has created means of production that fit on kitchen tables and in our garages that enable us to make our own flying cars, aquaponics systems, and solar panels, etc. We don't need to work in factories owned by overlords to earn taxable wages to buy goods and services anymore, because we can make our own goods and produce services that create the blessings of civilization ourself, and pay no profits to overlords and create no taxable events.

We don't need leaders. We are the saviours we're waiting for.