Originally Posted by
Vampyre
It's good to have a leader. It's a face that people can trust and rely on. Someone to look to for answers. Without a leader, people fragment away from each other. It's the leader's job to try and hold everybody together. Granted this isn't always exactly what a president is or does, but it's what they represent - leadership.
Also, ultimately, it's not one person's (the president) rule per se. The president has many advisors, including the Senate. You can't expect one person to know everything and always know what is best. This was realized a long time ago, and is the purpose for the creation of the president's cabinet. Remember too that, the senate also votes for the president, not just the public. If you think that the president and senate are "incapable" of the tasks that they perform, then that's rather ignorant of you to say. It's not like any asshole can walk in off the street and get elected.
Conclusively, people simply desire to have a leader, in hopes that they will either know what is best, or know who to talk to, in order to find out what is best.