I considered myself a liberal in those days, but even then most of friends loved the music but hated the politics. I didn't know one person who was interested in revolution. All we talked about was the music. When a big sixties groups like The Jefferson Airplane decided to go all out radical with their "Volunteers" album in 1969, I knew they were done for. (Besides all their albums since "Surrealistic Pillow" were self-indulgent pieces of garbage.) I suspect that most groups who championed radical causes lost most of their fans. When politics gets involved, art always suffers.
When speaking with folks who came of age in the 60s, I ask if they were political or just hippies.They always answer just hippies(with a cheesy little grin).
It was just about sex,drugs and rock ‘n’roll for the majority.
By 1973, everyone who wanted to be considered cool had adopted *the look*. The smart and connected went back to school, into the family business and mouthed that they were working within the system to change it. Today, they are elder statesmen, wealthy Democrats and they are financing the *revolution* from safety.
Conseravatives just on with their lives. I remember trying to reminisce with some people back in the early 80s and they, who had spent that time in a small rural town working and raising a family, just looked at me deadpan and asked:”What Sixties?”
Everyone was into the music, though, even the politicals who saw the music as an organizing vehicle.