Progressives do not equal hippies yet somehow they took over as the representatives for that group. Hippies were very libertarian. When I was a kid our commune

Progressives do not equal hippies yet somehow they took over as the representatives for that group. Hippies were very libertarian. When I was a kid our commune had everyone from atheist communist hedonists to super religious Muslim political refugees from Egypt, everyone was welcome. Progressives only welcome fellow Progressives, and heaven forbid you mention the L word (libertarian) around them. They go into 'attack the evil witch' mode and lose all reason. Somewhere along the line Progressives were able to take up the lead as if they were the continuation/inheritors of the hippie ideal, but they in no way were/are, they are the opposite. They take the 'hippies were trying to make the world better' then add 'and WE KNOW what rules will make it better, so we are therefor an extension of the hippie ideals'.