In a free and open society we are all 'responsible' for the people we call our 'leaders'.
In a truly 'democratic' society, we lead our so-called 'leaders' - not them us.
Today, and every day, we acknowledge our individual 'responsibility' to lead our leaders towards creating a society in which the 'bulk' of Humanity seems to want to live ... a society that lives up to the possibilities of human potential ... and in which no one has to live in states of terror, fear, violence, and [literal and/or metaphorical] poverty ...