No, they're not. Most moderates are moderates. Their self identification is far more relevant than you pretending that you know better. You don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. While they are the world's leading expert on their own political leanings.
You're deluding yourself, literally ignoring reality and clinging to whatever you imagine. And its gloriously meaningless to the rest of us.
Moderate has no meaning without qualification. Moderate WHAT? Sorry... entitled to your opinion, not your own facts. You can't lay claim to all the moderates as "non-conservative" because most of them are defining themselves as moderate conservatives. You've offered nothing to disprove this or to prove that all moderates are non-conservative.
Most of this country is philosophically conservative as opposed to ideologically liberal. Liberal ideologues such as yourself, make up only 23%... far from a majority. YOU are the delusional one.
For the first time in the decade and a half that Gallup has been tracking Americans’ ideologies, the percentage of those identifying their views on social issues as liberal has equaled the percentage of those who call themselves socially conservative.
Among 1,024 adults surveyed earlier this month, 31 percent said they were socially liberal — and 31 percent said they were socially conservative.
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Social liberals equal conservatives for first time in Gallup poll - Nick Gass - POLITICO
The percentage of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who describe themselves as both social and economic conservatives has dropped to 42%, the lowest level Gallup has measured since 2005. The second-largest group of Republicans (24%) see themselves as moderate or liberal on both social and economic issues, while 20% of all Republicans are moderate or liberal on social issues but conservative on economic ones.
Republican Conservative Base Shrinks
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Now you are trying to muddy the waters with Republicans... so you're switching around between parties, ideologies and philosophies or measures of an ideology... all clumped together and fed into your bogus propaganda machine to churn out misleading results.
Nope. You're just wrong. Once again, you're contradicted by overwhelming evidence. Once again, you ignore it and pretend that you know better than people speaking for themselves..
Laughing...how's that working out for you?
Conservatism is a philosophy, not an ideology. Liberalism is an ideology and not a philosophy.
Says you. The distinction you offer begins and end inside your head, as its nothing but your personal opinion. And we aren't bound to that. Almost none of us know about your opinion, and even fewer care.
You're expressing how *you* see conservatives. And you're nobody when you claim to speak for anybody else..
The folks that self identify as something *other* than a conservative
......you know, a solid majority.....those folks know what they're talking about regarding their own beliefs. Far better than you do about their beliefs. And none of the qualifiers you make up have any relevance to anyone but you.
You keep projecting your beliefs onto other people....and then laughably insisting that they must abide your beliefs.
Um, no. They don't.