Hippies were libertarian. But that didn’t last for more than a year or two. By 1970, the lefties had hijacked the Hippie movement. The Little Red Book of chairman Mao’s quotations became ubiquitous, and the personal became the political.
I know. I was in college then.
You are exactly right.
When I left for Vietnam the hippies were a much different breed then when I came home, that’s for sure.
Something changed while I was gone, they went from just being goofballs to something very hateful and spiteful.
I really had no problems with the love-bus hippies that existed early on (except the fact that my sister thought they were wonderful), but the metamorphosis of what they became made me hate everything about them.
I was in college then. The hippie movement or counterculture was one thing, the antiwar movement quite another. And yes, after 1970 the two more or less merged.
Got sent to Vietnam in 1971. I hated them all because they wanted us to lose. The enemy was emboldened by them in general & by Jane Fonda in particular.