I wouldn't call them Hippies, more just Hard Rock Longhairs who bypassed the idealism and went straight for the hedonism. And Hillary was never a Hippie, she did her bit for Nixon and Goldwater years before she could even vote. Her Young Republican self would have made Alex Keaton pop a stiffy on Family Ties.
My folks never let me have a Big Wheel. First I was too young then I was too old. That was basically their excuse for depriving me of everything. Same with hair. None covering my ears back then. My folks were real conservatives, not this pom pom waving nonsense. "But maaaaaaaaaaaa.........." SMACK! In retrospect, I'm amazed they let us listen to the radio at all or wear dungarees.
And also the Stones and the Who were still going, and hard to explain to the MTV gen, Aerosmith was actually good back then and you couldn't see a cover band without Freebird getting played during the encore. Gosh, I hated that song. Bowie and Alice lead the way for Kiss for me.
Sure, many mutated into Yuppie Conservatives, but let's not forgot the big game changer: Disco. In the space of a year my whole neighborhood went from "Page is God" to John Travolta wannabees & groupies with feathered hair. Freebird was still getting played though.
Then there was that undercurrent of Punk, which didn't balloon Stateside as was expected, but at least gave some of us a refuge from the fetid crap that took over by '82. But alas, that too got sucky(er than it already was) by '85. Then we had to plug our ears and wait till the '90s to start. Freebird was still getting played tho.