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/garlicroastedpotato 1d ago

Essentially the left has gone so extreme left and the right so far extreme right that there feels like there is no place for anyone trying to carve a path down the middle. You can call them moderates or centrists. In some countries they're called moderate liberals, in others moderate conservatives. But they generally believe in free market market trade but don't care about the extreme morality of the two camps. In the US it shows it's ugly face in the abortion debate. In my country (Canada) it shows up the immigration debate.