Future Gov. John Northstar

06/27/2026

Leo Tolstoy
“If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.”

This quote reflects empathy and humanity. Tolstoy suggests that emotional sensitivity defines true human connection. It highlights compassion. The message is about feeling others. Empathy is what makes us human.

06/27/2026

there’s an empathy crisis

12/31/2025

America was built on rebellion, defiance, violence, compassion, and patriotism, and so that is the only language it knows how to speak. If you speak to America in only one emotional language then half the nation will never hear you.

Rights cannot be seasonal. Humans are not binary. America is not binary. Change cannot be delivered in binary. Yet the system and its yoke on rights and providing the privelege of freedom continues that trend. The trend needs to go... I don’t want to play with the pendulum. I want to break the machine entirely.

Freedom only works when everyone has it, even the people you don’t like. And If we are to survive, we must learn to live alongside all of our monsters — within ourselves and without.

12/12/2025