How about all the people out there who are at rock bottom, or have major issues, are not leaders, are not at the top of their game, and need some encouragement or understanding?

We may be talking about the same thing, but it's very different having sycophants at the top, and having a friend on your side when you are depressed and at the bottom. Yet both of them might do the same thing. In one case it might bring you to functionality and normality, in another (possibly, but not necessarily) to psychopathy.