This may be a stupid question but there is something I dont understand about the dichotomous American political spectrum. Why are social and economic and political positions conflated into two positions: Conservative and Liberal. Republican and Democrat. Red and Blue. What I mean is, what do anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-family positions( issues broadly contested in the socio-cultural realm) have anything to do with the right wing neoliberal economics? why do these go hand in hand in the American political framework? what does you stance on abortion or homosexuality have anything to do with your stance on the workings of capitalism? I feel im missing something here.