If you REALLY WANT TO KNOW..read about David Horowitz’ transformation.
As for me, my parents values were conservative, pro military, very patriotic, and anti commie..it was very odd to my friends that during those days of protesting ..I never joined them to protest the Vietnam war nor did I join the ‘socialist groups” that my friends belonged to, but I did protest for equal rights and a greater sense of community.
There was an aspect of the Hippie movement that was very egaletarian and grass roots community ( kind of an early Tea Party). As young people in their twenties, many of us were very idealistic about society ....a good thing to have in your twenties.
Many of my “Hippie” friends who got past the drug and drinking days, finished school, and went to work...ended up taking the best of those times and becomming good citizens, very often conservatives, some moderate democrates.
Yeah, I was there. Never drank the Koolaid, but I had “the look”.
My dad was a veteran, I couldn’t stand the anti-war types, made friends with some returning VN vets.
Hippies and the Tea Party are polar opposites. Hippies make me vomit. I hated hippies when I was 11 in 1972 and I still hate them. Hippies suck.