About this song's Manifest Destiny line: Manifest Destiny was a concept used to describe the US's imperialistic ventures into the west in the 1800's. According to MD, the US was meant to reign 'from sea to shining sea'- in order to bring to fruition (aka manifest) the preordained mission (destiny) of ruling the continent, they had to kill Native Americans and supress people and all that other good stuff. Back to the song, I think they're saying that current US foreign policy is reverting back to MD-era reasoning. He says that MD the first time around was a mistake, and that we'll make the same mistake in Iraq and elsewhere if we don't wake up.
About this song's Manifest Destiny line: Manifest Destiny was a concept used to describe the US's imperialistic ventures into the west in the 1800's. According to MD, the US was meant to reign 'from sea to shining sea'- in order to bring to fruition (aka manifest) the preordained mission (destiny) of ruling the continent, they had to kill Native Americans and supress people and all that other good stuff. Back to the song, I think they're saying that current US foreign policy is reverting back to MD-era reasoning. He says that MD the first time around was a mistake, and that we'll make the same mistake in Iraq and elsewhere if we don't wake up.
VOTE KERRY!