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The people who believed music would change the world were dopers who are by now institutionalized or dead. Those of us who were in the real world were scrambling to make lives while the entire country was torn apart by the demonstrations and later Watergate.

Good summation. There were also a lot of poseurs who dressed or acted like activists/hippies, the same sheep types you have in any decade who follow whatever fad is in vogue. They had few convictions, even less knowledge and followed the crowd--one reason demonstrations grew larger year after year.

As a member of that generation, I get surprised looks if I tell someone I was not at Woodstock, not in the demonstrations and didn't do dope. In fact, I voted for Nixon both times and wouldn't change either ballot.

Ummmm...Nixon ran for President THREE times. He lost the first time and was elected in 1968 and re-elected in 1972. (He was defeated for Governor of California in between too.)The question is -- did you vote for him 3 times, or just twice?

I have to confess that I voted for Kennedy, but then I wised up and have been a Republican ever since. Living in Berkeley is what drove me to the Republican Party.

Interesting response.
I was all over the map ideologically in the Sixties,"chopping it up"with hard core white supremists as well as black militants.Went to Birch Society meetings and SDS get togethers in the same week.Got high with the hippies and helped break up a Leftist demo at my junior college in 1965.
I was the ultimate seeker.I wanted to sample everything that was happening back then.I became very disillusioned by both the Right and the Left but I think the Left's betrayal hurt me the most.You see,I EXPECTED more out of them.They promised so much and delivered so little.
Even today I am still estranged by many from both political spectrums.I really believe today's liberals are the biggest phonies on the face of the Earth.Yet,while respecting the Capitalist ethic and rejecting socialism,I never found much warmth in the Wall Street big money conservatism that I grew up around.A lot of real cold folks in that mindset.
Lots of Dylan threads lately.I think he is a kindred soul to me.If I love one quote by him it has to be"So let us stop talking falsely now,the hours getting late".
My Sixties philosophy that has lasted till this moment.