The social unrest of the late 60s made the country far worse off. All sorts of social progress was happening at a moderate and steady pace over the 1950s and 1960s. Then the late 1960s came along and the backlash basically halted or severely stunted all progress on basically every domestic social issue.

Basically the hippies got us out of 'Vietnam slightly quicker but they carelessly threw the poor and the non-white under the bus to do it.