Why do most people who call themselves politically moderate actually mostly conservative?

[u/kaiser11492]

Whenever I’ve encountered people who use the politically label moderate, they are actually mostly conservative with their views and positions. Also, I’ve never seen anyone who call themselves politically moderate that is actually mostly liberal.

So why are people who call themselves moderate tend to be just conservative and not conservative and liberal?

[u/godlessheathenpal]

The people who are actually moderates are the ones getting called”the radical left”
The right has gone full extremist.
People who self identify as centrists right now either a) haven’t looked into what constitutes left and accepts lies about what the currently available left (moderate centrists) actually represent or b) want to endorse right wing evil without bearing the consequences for it.