Heres how it can look:
1. Land and Sovereignty
Move from ownership to relationship.
2. Cultural Repair and Truth-Telling
Move from denial to reckoning.
3. Economics and Resources
Move from extraction to regeneration.
4. Governance and Policy
Move from hierarchy to collective responsibility

A way forward away from Manifest Destiny means consciously breaking from the ideology of domination, extraction, and entitlement that defined settler colonialism, and replacing it with systems rooted in reciprocity, consent, and repair.

Treatment of Unhoused communities:

“Sweeps” of homeless encampments echo forced removals of the past
Criminalization of poverty and survival activities
The notion that certain groups don’t belong in “civilized” spaces
Property rights superseding human needs

Some Contemporary Parallels

Immigration Enforcement:

Defining who has legitimate claim to American space
Using state power to remove those deemed “other”
Framing certain populations as threats to American identity
The militarization of borders and internal enforcement