But that’s how it was viewed out in much of mid-america. The Manson family butchery, Art Linkletter’s daughter dying from an LSD trip, the Weather Underground... the whole hippie mess being an ugly, nightmarish mix of anti-Americanism and cultural degradation.
And to this day we continue to paint the vast middle with the miniscule extremes ... right and left.
manson is to hippies what eric robert rudolph is to the prolife movement.
obviously, neither are representative of the thing they are said to represent.