And we don't?
And you all wonder why there's so much distaste for you sanctimonious ones?
Moderates are willing to compromise on their values. That's why they're referred to as moderates. Their lines are blurred. They'll take liberalism in one area to get something else in another. In the end, liberalism has increased no matter how you look at it, and liberalism is always a down hill path. Why help it? It's better to stand up and try to defeat it. When you give them an inch, they spin it into a mile.
All the gays wanted was tolerance, remember?
Abortion was to help one woman carrying a dead or soon to be dead child, remember?
After the depression, the social programs were suppose to stop. What happened? The moderates gave an inch on all these issues, didn't they? The conservatives did not, and even today they're still trying to stop it all. They know it's all going to get even worse because it always does due to "the moderate voter." They cave every time.