20 years. That's how long the anger and distrust of "the hippies" lasted after the violence of the late 60s. Americans watched as riots raged in the late 60s and realized that the veneer of "peace and love" was a cover for anarchists trying to take down society.
I'm old enough to remember this distrust. People HATED hippies with a passion, and no more vehemently than the early 70s when we were still picking up the pieces from their riots and violence.
What we're seeing right now is the early phases of what happened in the late 60s and early 70s, with the riots and race war propaganda. Soon will come assassinations. Then in all likelihood a few decades of extreme distrust of leftists again.
In the late 80s there was a cultural change, led by the media, to repaint the radicals and anarchist leftists from the 60s as "the hippies" who wanted "peace and love", which was a complete lie but enough time had passed that it worked.
20 years. That's how long the anger and distrust of "the hippies" lasted after the violence of the late 60s. Americans watched as riots raged in the late 60s and realized that the veneer of "peace and love" was a cover for anarchists trying to take down society.
I'm old enough to remember this distrust. People HATED hippies with a passion, and no more vehemently than the early 70s when we were still picking up the pieces from their riots and violence.
What we're seeing right now is the early phases of what happened in the late 60s and early 70s, with the riots and race war propaganda. Soon will come assassinations. Then in all likelihood a few decades of extreme distrust of leftists again.
In the late 80s there was a cultural change, led by the media, to repaint the radicals and anarchist leftists from the 60s as "the hippies" who wanted "peace and love", which was a complete lie but enough time had passed that it worked.