I agree, there seem to be few true leaders in the Western countries. The political and academic worlds only want obedient sheep. Both are corrupt, the politicians want money and the universities are Marxist crazies.
There’s still plenty of good people out there, it’s just they are off doing other things because we value the wrong things academically. This situation is totally fixable, I don’t think there is any country in the world with better prospects that way than the United States :)