If you can provide a specific example, I could maybe reply in-depth. However, I don't believe that their ideas/philosophy were adopte wholesale by society at large. More than likely the same technologies and/or economics that impacted the hippies also similarly impacted the larger society.
Governance is always generational, and they are the generation in power at the moment. The environmental movement ("Global Warming"), the anti-war movement and the scourge of political correctness are what endanger us as a nation -- all the DIRECT RESULT of the '60s - early '70s generation grown up into positions of power.