With Democratic Party majorities in both chambers of Congress and a Democratic President, many are wondering if America is turning to the left.

Back in 2007 McClatchy Newspapers ran an article about the Democratic party shifting more to the left.

The Democratic Party is growing more liberal for the first time in a generation.

It's more antiwar than at any time since 1972. Support is growing for such traditionally liberal values as using the federal government to help the poor. And 40 percent of Democrats now call themselves liberal, the highest in more than three decades and twice the low-water mark recorded as the conservative Reagan revolution swept the country in the early 1980s.

This month, The American Prospect ran an article entitled "So Long, Alex P. Keaton" about the millennial generation turning to the left and how that could affect politics for the future.

In 1984, 59 percent of the nation's Alex P. Keatons voted for Reagan, an extraordinary percentage for a Republican (and just over his proportion of the popular vote as a whole). What was going on? As E.J. Dionne, then a reporter for The New York Times, wrote near the end of Reagan's tenure in the fall of 1988, "Academics and political consultants who have studied the youth vote have many explanations for their movement toward the Republicans, but the most powerful is the simplest: Young Americans have known only Mr. Reagan and Mr. Carter as President, and Mr. Reagan is the overwhelming favorite. Similarly, many people who first voted in the Depression still see politics in terms of the Democratic President Roosevelt and the Republican President Hoover...

...Start with the obvious: 67 percent of voters under 29 cast their ballot for Barack Obama, a result unequalled since exit polling began. (If you're interested, exit-poll data dating back to 1976 can be found at the Roper Center.) Despite periodic proclamations that young conservatives are poised for a comeback (see, for instance, this lengthy portrait in The New York Times Magazine only six years ago of the "Young Hipublicans" who were ready to take the country by storm), young people aren't finding much to like about today's GOP. And as a pair of new reports from the Center for American Progress on the present and future of American ideology show, those feelings are likely to run much deeper than a single election or a single candidate.

Even the esteemed Wall Street Journal has chimed in with an article entitled "Why the GOP Can't Win With Minorities".

Today conservatism is stigmatized in our culture as an antiminority political philosophy. In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.

Yet there is now the feeling that without an appeal to minorities, conservatism is at risk of marginalization. The recent election revealed a Republican Party -- largely white, male and Southern -- seemingly on its way to becoming a "regional" party.

If the GOP can't reach out to minorities, the future for them will be grim indeed. Especially according to a recent projection released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 2050, the Census Bureau expects, minorities will make up 54% of the country's population. The Census Bureau defines minorities as everyone except for non-Hispanic, single-race whites.

Also by the century's halfway point, the 65-and-older age group will more than double from 38.7 million to 88.5 million, making up more than 20% of the U.S. population in 2050 compared with the current level of 13%. The 85-and-older population will more than triple between 2008 and 2050, according to the forecast.

In December 2007, the Pew Hispanic Center reported that 57% of Hispanic registered voters now call themselves Democrats or say they lean to the Democratic Party.

Keep in mind, that liberal 18 year old people who voted for Obama in 2008 will be 60 in 2050. In 2006, people aged 45 to 54 accounted for 53.8% of voters. If those millenials stay liberal, their voice will continue to guide politics at that time. As will the projected 54% of the population that will be minorities...who currently don't vote GOP in any appreciable amount.

Is America liberal? Maybe not at this time. Leaning slightly? Yes.

But the future? It's looking more and more progressive.

As a side note, when I visited The American Prospect site which proclaims it was founded in 1990 as an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas it had a google banner at the top of the page...showing a large banner proclaiming "Ann Coulter - Free". I laughed.