HAS Realism supplanted Pragmatism in American thought.
Otherwise stated, has blind faith pushed facts off the board.

I'm a little confused by your phrasing. "Realism" seems to me to be the opposite of "blind faith."

But if I guess that what you are asking, is if there has been a fundamental philosophical change in America, I would answer "absolutely not."

From my historian's viewpoint, I've seen no general change in American philosophy in two hundred years. Mainly, because American Philosophy isn't really a thing, in and of itself. It's like American Society: American Philosophy is the vague, foggy resulting sum of the individual points of view of three hundred million individuals.

What I would support, that you might be referring to, is that we have had a fairly recent shift in what could be called political manipulation technique, away from the use of factual investigation and logical deduction, towards making important political choices based on emotional fits of pique, and your blind faith. This is the unfortunate but to be expected result of decades of encouraging voters to refuse to believe anything opponents say, even when it is supported by various authorities, and to vote instead, based on who they are upset with.

Well said, sir - I will write a reply later today.

life is always transitioning it's more just way you observe and react that shows the nature of the transition

I actually think facts are coming into play for the 1st time i.e. if someone claims something to be true most people will look it up and see if its true or not while in past years people would take their word for it i think since more people are turning to facts its now noticable that they werent at 1st its just in its growing stage so to speak

I actually think facts are coming into play for the 1st time i.e. if someone claims something to be true most people will look it up and see if its true or not while in past years people would take their word for it i think since more people are turning to facts its now noticable that they werent at 1st its just in its growing stage so to speak

blind faith vs facts ?
isn't that tunnel vision??

Well, that would be what was happening, and be a good thing if it were, save for the problem that these same people who are "checking facts," aren't using any but their favorite biased sources to do so.

Traditionally, not really. "Tunnel vision" is usually a reference to someone who is so narrowly focused on a single something, that they are oblivious to everything else around and behind them.

They may be that way BECAUSE they dedicate themselves to having blind faith, but there is a difference between approach and result, technically speaking.

Someone who says "whatever my Great Leader says and does is true and right" suffers from blind faith.

Someone who says "the only thing to ask, is whether or not the proposal will bring financial profits to private industry" suffers from tunnel vision.