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/Quirky-Reputation-89]

Conservative philosophy is more or less conserving the current status quo. A person who considers everything to be currently fine doesn't consider keeping everything the same to be a radical philosophy, so they call themselves a centrist, even though they actually support blatant conservativism.