” Young people speaking their minds ( build the wall!) getting so much RESISTANCE from behind, I think it’s time we stop children what’s that sound everybody look what’s Goin Down” ( Trump is trying saving the country!!)
That was a pleasant song but we can’t really claim anything good out of it applies to today, in my opinion. “For What It’s Worth” was composed by Stephen Stills when songs were needed by the group Buffalo Springfield of which he was a member in 1966. He told them “I finished a song, for what it’s worth.” They used that for the title.
It was about the Sunset Strip Riots in which (don’t laugh) short-haired, clean, decent young people wanted to hear loud popular music in places along Sunset Strip and would gather outside trying to get in. Beach Boys,Johnny Rivers,et al were popular then. Cops were called, then people were prodded but went into the streets and refused to leave and finally were pushed and tear gassed by police.
This was just before the hippie era blossomed in earnest. Photos show kids with sport shirts,nice pants and short hair. San Francisco was starting to look like the Grateful Dead wannabes but LA was slightly behind.
Book Riot On Sunset Strip by Dominic Priore is about this. Also Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker covers it in context.
Problem: today’s young people are socialists and crybaby liberals who want to destroy society to replace it with their version from Karl Marx. Rappers, BLM, vicious Antifa thugs and black rioters are today’s version of the clean cut kids who dared to want to hear music in clubs.
The old saying “you never had it so good” applies to the Americans of 1966.