Where did those people who changed the world in the 60's with peaceful protest go?

Question

They wanted peace, freedom to live as they wanted, small government that would stay out of our lives, legallazation of drugs, equallity for all people. They were mostly collage age then so now they should be of the age of those running this country now. WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

Answer 1

They joined the rest of the world which was not changed fundamentally. To change the world it takes more than fads and changing a few laws.
The human being has to change and that takes millions of years, unless we can change the human genes.
Knowing the being of the human takes more than reason.

Answer 2

A great many of them grew up and out of their protest mood. They openly exerted their feelings and forced society to acknowledge them. In the end I think they had expectations that they would pass this off to the next generation. They had laid the ground work and expected it to be carried on after they were done.

The Vietnam war was a glue that held the group together. It was the main issue of agreement that kept them going. Then that war ended in the 70's and the society as a whole begin changing. In this time they got older and began to start working towards their futures. They joined the system they spent their college years protesting about.

They are the ones running the country now, but they are different people. They like many of us began careers and started families. These life events do change the way in which you view the world. Many of the views you had when you were 19 with no responsibilities have changed.

It does not mean they have totally stopped the fight. They just do it in a different way. Many have become successful and used that success to further the causes they so believed in. Many became educators in order to try keep an awareness alive in the youth. You don't see them every day, but they are still out there.

They are not as young and vocal as in the past, but many are still trying to achieve some of the goals of their youth.

Answer 3

John Kerry was a peace activist. He ran for president in 2004 and lost.

The 60's protesters did not agiitate for "small government", but they did want privacy rights.

Answer 4

peaceful? Are you sure they were?


Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. The group referred to itself as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men" whose purpose was to carry out a series of militant, terroristic actions that would achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the Government of the United States (and of capitalism as a whole)


This was just one of many that did a lot of very bad things in the 60s and 70s

Answer 5

We grew up for the most part some are still out in the street or living on the street

Answer 6

They are currently in the Government trying to change the constitution to read all men are created equal and therefore will be taxed into oblivion.Unless your from Mexico.

Answer 7

I think a lot of ppl just don't care anymore. If it doesn't tuoch them, they can not be bothered. Like why don't ppl go on strike @ work anymore? I ask, I was told the company would just get more ppl to do the job. So now ppl don't do anything. Now if you try to protest, They'll just tos you in jail or something.

Answer 8

They grew up and realized the only way they were really going to change anything was from the inside, not outside.

Answer 9

cut their hair (a little), started wearing organic cotton and driving SUVs and moved to Marin County, just North of San Francisco, although their maids probably drive in from the East Bay.

Answer 10

They were incarcerated because of the drugs and dope. I storngly suggest that you don't start to try and get more anti-war protests going because you will have one very angry government. (AND I WILL LAUGH AT YOUR DUMB A**)