They think change as promoted by celebrities or intellectuals must be a good thing so they moderately go along with it. Besides it is so much more pleasant and easy to let the talking head on the news do it for you. It is much more fun to think Barbra Streisand knows how things should be than to be required to look into issues. Moderates do not want to have to think about anything. Thinking might require moderates to be accountable for ideas or actions and it is preferable to leave that to others.
Moderates think that public education just needs more money to succeed.
Moderates think that schools are failing because the classes are too large and the proper new teaching tool has not yet been discovered. Moderates believe whatever the NEA tells them. When their child comes home unable to read, moderates know that their kids are illiterate but full of self-esteem. Moderates think that social security will be around forever and just needs more taxes to offer recipients the good life. Moderates are comfortable going through life in a daze, half alive, hoping that their problems will be taken care of.