It doesn’t help that there are almost 0 conservatives left in the Republican Party. They either joined the Trump cult and gave up on conservatism or got exiled. And many of the latter were then welcomed by centrist democrats.
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Every mainstream Democrat today would have been considered a Republican when I was a young man, except for the identity politics. So they've moved to the right, and then added a diversionary and divisive agenda to their overall party policy.
It recent years, moderate was always to speak about conservatives that are too ashamed to admit that they are conservative.
So it isn't a surprise.
Well, yeah… current democrats are far closer to republicans of 30-40 years ago than they are to someone like President Carter. Even back in the day the democrats were resistant to taking up LGBTQ causes. Republicans otoh are courting fascism and oligarchy openly. The Overton window has slid that far to the right.
American politics (and any post about) is like splitting in borderline personality disorder.
Seriously so much semantics.
I mean it's pretty obvious that the Democrats are more in line with what the Republicans were 10-15 years ago.
I want to take that test, because I don't know how my centrist ass can score "conservative" when I want things like free healthcare, free education, and UBI.
I mean you're probably closer to a true moderate liberal than Joe Biden or other American Democrats that call themselves moderate liberals. You're not left wing, since you still think capitalism can work if you just do enough state power, but Joe Biden would call you a far left communist out to destroy American values same as Trump or Nixon.
Hint: These stuff is not what most other "moderates" would support. You sound like a very confused progressive lib.
Wat? Why do you think I'm confused. Also, I'm not USAmerican.
Because things like UBI are not moderate propositions!
In my country, most of the right also support these things adamantly, just not as liberally as the centre or left.
You probably are more traditionally centre. But on the US spectrum, there's some that would consider you more progressive or left. While in other countries, you could be more right—shrug. You need to realise the US Republican party, as far as popular parties go, is considered the most extreme right-wing party in the western world and the Democratic Party is perceived as right of centre. The US spectrum doesn't recognise that because of the big right-shift in the domestic spectrum.
But I wouldn't worry so much. People that invest everything into the 2D spectrum, let alone single points on it, aren't really perceiving your true positions correctly anyway. Hence why you can say a thing and be put all over the place by these comments, depending on individuals' ideas of it.