Actor Asks Conservatives How Their Values Help People—17 Replies

Unfortunately but predictably, Ales did not get much of an answer to his question, noting in a follow-up tweet that he “ain’t hearing anything new and helpful” from them. Indeed, real answers from actual conservatives are a bit hard to find among all the sarcastic (or just entirely accurate) responses from non-conservatives, in spite of the fact that, as one noted, right-wingers seem eager to flood every other tweet Ales makes.

Others who were formerly conservative or were raised in conservative families offered some insights into what they were told were conservative values, but found that when they tried to live by these guidelines, they were called liberals or quickly realized that nobody on the right practiced what they preached. Those who have observed the political right in the U.S. are often of the opinion that the only people they help are themselves and the rich, hoping someday to be the rich, or that they don’t help anyone at all and never have.

Among the few actual conservative answers, words like “simplicity” and “stoicism” were offered, which are not so much what people typically think of today as “values.” Additional, stoicism refers to a school of philosophy that stresses the importance of study and helping one another and blames fear-based judgment for much of the misery in the world. Others pointed to the idea of small government, ignoring all the times that they cheered on big government interference in private lives such as abortion restrictions.

But the sarcastic responses are a lot more fun, so here’s a collection of our favorites: