I’ve known several hippies. I’ve noticed if they were hippies in the 60’s, they are hippies in their 60’s. Same goes with their low energy happy go lucky work ethic. Quite harmless.
I’ve also worked with and for the college educated ones that went to college to avoid Vietnam or to just be a part of a protest movement. They are the radicals in power now. They are essentially a fifth column, doing as much damage from within as they can muster. Most are very unhappy people.
The only hippie in our family got a master degree in psychology and now he lives under a bridge in CA. He is probably harmless.
The actual hippies were different but generally harmless. Their movement was coopted by the hateful radical left.
You are correct that there were two separate components of the youth revolt in 1967, the counterculture and the antiwar movement.
The former were mostly drugged out hippies, the latter were determined leftwing ideologues with an agenda to destroy America as we knew it, and they are the ones in power within academia, the media, and politics.
And yes, the more you give them, the angrier they become. There is also an evil alliance between today’s Left and Islam which bears further inquiry.
the “silver pony-tails” as Breitbart called them