Bullbleep....hippies were never a majority of Boomers. Very vocal, yes. And hippies are still around (and have been since their origination)...so they are not a "generational thang".
I didn't mean to infer all Boomers were hippies, of course not. However, they were more than "vocal", Their constant protest activities increasingly caused our withdrawal from VN that wasted 58,000 American lives when we were actually winning.
Don't believe me, research General Giap's (NVN head general) memoirs. He was ready to give up. But no, the hippies' constant protesting encouraged him to fight on, not to mention Walter Cronkike's erroneous claim we lost the Tet Offensive. WRONG!
Read Robert Bork's book and he lays it out well how they were the beginning of the downhill slide into socialism and immorality. I was there and saw it first hand, and even visited a hippie commune that went defunct soon after because many did want to pull their weight, but expected the same benefits. Sound familiar?
I've watched how they have slowly passed on their, "if it feels good, do it" and "gimmedat" mentality to other generations, through our academic, political, media, and cultural institutions. Surely, you can't disagree with that.