How are 2014 lefties 'for' what was railed against in the 60's?

Yes people who were in college in the 60s are now in charge - that's sort of the way things work. That doesn't mean they are exactly the same people (although the Clintons certainly were). But just as many people who participated in the 60s as "flower children" did all sorts of things.

My Generation was supposed to be the Slacker generation, but I got a job and a career and I notice a lot of people my age did the same. Generational generalities don't really mean much.

Bryant

I 'm not sure that I was asking anything in particular, it was just something
that I was thinking about, and I was curious to know if others wondered the same thing.
As to the rest of your post. +1

People change.

We live our lives and experience things we didn't know about when we were in our first blush of youth.

Sometimes it's easy to be against something when you don't know all the intricacies and consequences of being totally against it.

One area where that's plain...to me, anyway...is when people want to boycott (be against) some company or corporation or whatever. If it's a personal choice, then OK. But if it's done with the intent of hurting the people at the top, then it doesn't make sense. The people at the top won't be hurt much, if at all. It's the little people who will suffer. The ones who will lose their jobs if the company falters.

See, it's easy to be against something as long as one doesn't have to suffer the (often dire) consequences.

I think that's a lesson people learn as they get older.