Bull s**t. There might have been “protesters” who didn't like the war, but the leadership were hard core commies who thought they could provoke a revolution using the war. If you doubt me, read David Horowitz’s book Radical Son. Those SOBs were nothing but ideology.
Don’t need to read no history books.
I resided most of my life here in the heartland.
I entered college in 1969 and won the lottery in December of that year which was the only lottery I ever had a ticket in albeit an involuntary one.
Took a college tour so to speak and wandered my way through three colleges in four years before getting my BA in May of 1973.
Didn’t do no protests because I had no skin in the game as my lottery number assured me I’d never be forced to involuntarily put on a uniform.
There were protests on the three campuses that I spent time on, but nothing violent and there really were no stinkin’ hippies who would never get a degree organizing SDS and doing sit ins and tagging whatever they could find.
The several protests and hundreds if not thousands of protesters that I saw first hand were mostly like me, non-ideological and apolitical, trying to get an education and find a career path.
And strangely although I claimed to be apolitical, I may have taken enough political science classes to have a minor in political science.
I don’t remember many if any radicals spouting off in those political science courses and there was plenty of freedom to voice opinions in those and most of the classes that I was enrolled in.
But I had equal contempt for both political parties as I still do today, and though I have played the good soldier and always voted, I’m proud to say that I have never been affiliated with either stinkin’ wing of the uniparty.
I have never bought much into ideology although I have encountered a lot of ideologues on Free Republic whose ideological zealotry has been tamped down by Trump who is a lot of things but an ideologue is not one of them.
From afar I always thought the radical leaders like Tom Hayden and the others with vaguer name recognition were not really ideologues but just losers who were sore they never got elected to student council like the clean cut yuppies and they were just taking an opportunity to get some shine.
You are 100% correct, Ditto and Biblebelter doesn’t know the FACTUAL history of the 1960s at all.