This has been brewing for quite some time.
A moderate is no longer a moderate. It's a liberal who is afraid to call himself a liberal and has taken up the "moderate" label to try to persuade mainstream America that he/she shares their centerpoint view (when they clearly don't).
They are anything but in the center of the political spectrum. They are afraid to point out that they are left of center and are sometimes WAY left.
When someone talks about taking a moderate approach to something, they're really talking about a liberal approach.
The moderate label used to describe the center has been usurped (hijacked) by the left.
To disentangle themselves, those who are closer to the center have to point that out to anyone who will listen. Simply using another term to describe the center won't work as the liberals, always looking for new cloaks to hide their liberal-ness behind, will hijack the new term too.
Don't use "moderate" to describe the center. It's no longer accurate.
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