Reply #7: Yes, Repugs and, for that matter, DLC Democrats and Todd Gitlin cry "anti-American" ....

[cloudythescribbler]

but it seems to me that "Rainbow Coalition" Democrats and the broad liberal mainstream (Kennedy/Boxer Democrats) of the Democratic Party should be winnable over to a politics of anti-imperialism. Once it is clear that NAFTA/WTO, outsourcing, and exploiting the undocumented status of immigrants, in addition to the Iraq War are all the ESSENCE of imperialism, it doesn't seem so "unAmerican" to a broad swath of the US public.

In India, Arundhati Roy -- also an anti-imperialist, and critic of neo-liberalism -- is trashed with an epithet that is their equivalent of "anti-American": "anti-National".