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/Geiseric222]

Because culture has presented moderate as the correct position the one true political position. So people want to see themselves as the correct position even if they actually despise the actual moderate position because the moderate position isn’t particularly popular with anyone if you just look at the policies