Yes. I'm very socialist on an economic scale but very liberal on the social scale. It basically embodies what we call progressive these days.

Conservatism has redefined itself too. Capitalist on the economic scale, authoritarian on the social one. When it comes to topics like lgbt, abortion, religion, family they don't want freedom. They want to have only the freedom to think like them. That's what we call authoritarianism. A bit remarkable because freedom was traditionally the hallmark of the right. I think you still see the original freedom variety more in states like Texas but not in the midwest. But I'm not really on the ball with American politics anymore so I may be wrong.

I think this breaks the original left/right paradigms a bit but I view it more as a redefinition.

But I think progressive and conservative are better terms to use these days.

This is to be expected in a 2-party system like the US.

Since there can only ever be one axis, it must encode all possible issues. And with the strong polarization at the moment, sports team thinking takes over. If you identify with one of the 2 parties, you are expected to agree with the arbitrarily decided position on every single issue, no matter how contradictory.