I would like to personally thank these scum for helping to popularize drugs, loveless sex, a distaste for tradition, a hatred of the American culture, and a constant whining drumbeat of senseless complaining which exagerrates discomfort to the level of crisis.
When these guys were tripping out on acid in 1967, I was 11 years old, just on the cusp of understanding society, and these guys hijacked my youth with the promise of changing the world and making it a better place. They were sure attractive to my untrained and unsophisticated mind.
The results 10 years later were predictable. My friends and I were experiencing wholesale drug addiction, venereal disease, abortion, alienation, and loneliness. The hippies turned out to be leftist ideologues of the most rigid type. A few years after that, we experienced AIDS, broken families, and crack.
Some of us made it out alive. For that I thank God, my family, and the traditional values of American culture. As far as those at that outdoor party in San Francisco are concerned, the faster they die off and go away, the better.
You well describe their many "achievements." I must add I NEVER found them attractive at any point in my childhood or youth. It was clear to me at ten, that what they were doing would lead to nothing good.
You chose.