He took to it like a fish to water.
The “counterculture” was a petri dish where con men, sexual predators, cult leaders and assorted opportunists thrived.
Yep.
Like Rush Limbaugh (he’s just a year or so older than me) I grew up in the middle of the counterculture, and thought it was stupid even then. But many embraced it.
“The counterculture was a petri dish where con men, sexual predators, cult leaders and assorted opportunists thrived.”
Substitute “politics” for “counter-culture” and you statement is completely true today also.