I disagree; America is center-left and turning bluer.
Just a minor quibble, ScottinVA. I draw a distinction between "America" and "American government."
Certainly it's true that the present government is 'way left-of-center, increasingly "blue"; and it has been for years. But I do not believe that "America," if by which you mean We the People, is center-left and turning blue. I believe that culturally, the vast majority of the American people are center right, and (regardless of party registration), tend to a generically "conservative" cultural, constitutional and economic point of view, for the simple reason that they have not lost their common sense, their sense of moderation, prudence, personal restraint and responsibility in social affairs.
It does seem true that they have lost traction in political effectiveness over the past few decades. This has been a slow but steady trend promoted by the Progressive Left; but for there to have been any "progress" along these lines, it is due to the fact that the Progressive Left systematically, deliberately lies, cheats, steals, and foments chaos as the methods of their political advancement.
But the "silver lining" of the coronavirus panic (hoax???) is that increasingly, the character and tactics of the Progressive Left (not to mention their ineptness and fecklessness) are surfacing, becoming visible to the American people. The results of their ideological commitments can readily be seen in the scandalous mismanagement and bankruptcy of the Democrat-governed "Blue states." Just check out what asses like Andrew Cuomo, and the governors Pritziker, Newsom, and that idiot in Michigan what's-her-name to name a few, have managed to achieve with their style of "governance": blight, bankruptcy, class warfare, social dislocation, and fear.
I live in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts. The state has been Left Progressive (and Puritan) for decades now, and corrupt from top to bottom. Even when we elect Republican governors, they govern like Left Progressives — c.f. Romney and Baker. The state seems to be run by a gaggle of weak-minded females. All they care about is "women's 'issues'," hatred of Trump, and Me-tooism (except when it's inconvenient). Everything here culturally is shaped by Left Progressivism and its subbranch, Feminism.
But somehow, I survived the brain-washing. And — miracle of miracles!!! — more and more people I talk to here are seeing what a fraud Massachusetts is perpetrating on her people. Even long-time Democrats and "minorities." (They aren't "minor"!) How much contempt for the Constitution — federal and state — the Massachusetts political class has, although each and every elected or appointed official has sworn an Oath of Office to support and defend same in order to take and hold office.
The people are culpable for not holding their elected "leaders" accountable, and not punishing them for misdeeds by removing them from office or some other suitable means. But, unlike the Progressive Left, who spend all their time organizing and proselytizing to the under-educated, the people have lives to live, families to care for, and work to do. They haven't got the leisure to make a full-time career out of politics, social reconstruction, and "the transvaluation of values."
Yet as things crumble all around them due to the coronavirus panic, increasingly they will be asking who is to blame. The Progressive Left will do everything in their power to lay the blame at Trump's feet.
But as Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
In the end, I trust in the common sense of the American people, and their genuine love for their country.
If indeed the people's common sense should fail, I believe We the People would be doomed.
And then you would be right, ScottinVA!
Thank you so much for writing!