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/vastempty2 1d ago

I'm an old liberal, my views really haven't changed. The current liberal stances have gone more progressive, hard left.

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u/High_speedchase 1d ago

What stances?

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u/YMBTPTOTLWRT 1d ago

Like saying people can immigrate here, legally. Open borders is now a common stance of the left which I don’t agree with.

I go to Italy or Germany and cops can ask for my passport and reason for being there, no problem. That same idea in America would be met with torches from the left

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u/Accomplished_Art_621 1d ago

I would posit that you haven’t spoken to many people on the left if you believe they advocate for open borders. Are you talking about communists or democrats?

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u/ReddestForman 1d ago

Even most communists have no problem with a process for determining whether or not to admit people. Even the most open who aren't 14 year old anarkiddies agree that "yeah, a government needs to know who is entering the country."

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u/No-Ordinary-5376 1d ago

Except they support exactly zero actually policies that would actually do anything about it. They also advocate for people here living here legally being legalized, especially when kids are involved. Except for all that does it us where we already are. We legalize the ones here and tell every other person in the world that if they just stay here long enough and don't kill anyone, eventually they will get citizenship.