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Chas is talking about the silent majority that elected Nixon...to be fair that was where most of America was in 1969


not that I agree about Chas on almost anything thank goodness...I would not say Altamont was representative of the USA either. It is never black and white.


I think Tom Joad hit the nail on the head...I do not know if Tom is giving Chas the finger from an esrtwhile "hippie"...or if Tom is being sort of ironic in that the character shown was sort of the dark side of the counter culture.....I don't remember if Dennis Hopper was flower power type of character in the movie or more of biker type ...but he and Peter Fonda were businessmen since they were transporting coke or something...they were on the take too in other words.

I was too young but I remember hippies in the popular culture and the word war being spray painted on the stop signs. The sixties really took place between 1965-1975....

I remember my history professors in the early 80s talking about the ambivalent nature of the counter culture...it had good aspects and some bad ones. When I finally discovered Zappa in 2010 or so his album We're Only In It For The Money really dovetailed with what I was told by people who were there in the 60s. Zappa and my old professors were on the same page.