The counterculture rebellion of the late '60s was way more kinetic and destructive than today. In 1967's riots in Detroit, more than 40 people were killed and 7000 National Guard were called out. 1400 buildings burned in that one city.
Many of the young people who joined the "hippy movement" became much more conservative as they got older. I personally know a hippy-ish woman from back then who is now a total conservative. A lot of the hippy guys back then were only going with the politics to get lefty chicks who were into free love. It was almost all a put-on.
People haven't changed that much, and today's unrest is tame compared to what went on back then.
Much of the “hippie” ethos equated pretty closely with Libertarian, or small “L” liberal, standards. Evolving from that to Constitutional Conservative isn’t as much of a leap as some assume. Those who read Marx and took him seriously, or wore/wear Che Guevara’s Cuban propaganda image on a shirt, on the other hand, went another way. They became actual Fascists and Racists, dividing and castigating people on the basis of beliefs and skin tone. And perfectly willing to commit violence against anyone who doesn’t conform. This will not end well ... for them.
Media is much more pervasive, however.
People had actual lives, instead of being online all the time...
I’m not quite sure I agree totally with you ST, but you’ve got a major point.
But first, I was a hippie from the sixties and you described me well. Now I am a staunch conservative while back in those days I held hands across America, marched endlessly against that horrible Vietnam was (many of our lives, to include mine, were turned upside down by that politico run war which made no sense to us).
And please don’t forget that there are FOUR DEAD IN OHIO.
Yes those were stressful times and we should be reminded that we got through it, maybe we’ll get through this mess.
Who knows.