The Philosopher King... real, skills, fake?

The ideal leader needs to be a lot of things.  He or she needs to be humble, caring, and thoughtful as well as being persuasive, intelligent, and confident enough to successfully perform their duties.  I think the skill that usually makes a leader gain followers is the ability to be confidant and convincing when giving out speeches.  To use Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, an ideal leader would be able to convince the population living on the lowest floor that what is real to them is not necessarily the real reality, that the reality is another and so on, until you reach the full reality outside of the cave.  A leader also has to have the best interest for his/her people and avoid corruption.

According to Plato, this leader would be the 'Philosophers King' because Plato, being a philosopher himself, thought that the perfect leader should be a philosopher as well since options are best analyzed and decisions better made by philosophers.  Plato must have been slightly (or not so slightly) conceited because the King that he described sounded a bit like him.  Plato thought that this ideal leader had not been found and I believe that that is true, we have not found the perfect leader.  I believe that we have found leaders with lots of these qualities, but never perfect. 

Some of these leaders that have had some of the qualities of the “Philosophers King” are not always the ones that reach their full potential. From what I have come to gather, most leaders seem to be very promising, having much potential and often being successful at reaching the goals that they promise, but never do they make it all the way. Jobs always seem somewhat left undone, as if a blank was left for someone else to fill, or later in time, they fail completely and collapse. I think that in our time, such a person as a 'Philosopher King' could most definitely exist but our society would not accept him as such. When will we know that we have a Philosopher King among us? When will he show up? Will he come in a time of great need kind of like a prophet or savior, or show up randomly?