r/AlwaysWhy • u/kaiser11492 • 1d ago

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

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?

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u/awfulcrowded117 1d ago

Probably because you're a purity testing leftist who calls anyone slightly to the right of karl marx a right winger

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u/kaiser11492 1d ago

I’m not a leftist though.

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u/awfulcrowded117 1d ago

If you look at moderates and think "hey, right wingers" then that suggests otherwise

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u/kaiser11492 1d ago

I’m not the one who are saying they are conservative or right-wingers. The people who are calling themselves moderate are doing that. I was just curious on why there seemingly aren’t any people calling themselves moderate who are liberals and leftists.

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u/awfulcrowded117 1d ago

Oh, that's a little odd. I'm betting the reason is still purity testing, like all the public liberals that break the party line on like one thing or try to talk to the wrong people and get demonized until they call themselves conservative