To answer your question...in one way it was MUCH worse, yet in another it was far better.
Imagine, if you will, if the BLM, Antifa, and all of the moronic females who march & protest today, along with those crazies who try to shoot GOPers were one group, led by people who actually knew what they were doing and made plans as a real army does. That's what the late '60s and early '70s were like. There WAS blood in a whole LOT of streets and bombs set off.
OTOH...though the lefties spewed nothing but foul language, "normal" people didn't; except for me, when I hit back at the SCUM, using their own words against them, which shocked the XXXX outta them, because I was their age, not on their side, and was better at intimidation than they were.
though the lefties spewed nothing but foul language,