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They weren't exactly slaughtered out of existence. The reason the counter culture faded was due to multiple factors including things such as radical fatigue in the absence of revolutionary change(see Bob Black withered anarchism), changing post-fordist polyecon institutional structures that successfully recuperated the non revolutionary aspect of the counterculture(who ended up becoming the cyberspace movement), the rise of late 20th century Marxist structural dominant theory which hurt the anarchist anarchic element of the CC ect. It was not CCs being slaughtered like buffalo. In certain radical militant groups like the Panthers and The AIM the simply killed each other from the inside and imploded.

The thing about overton windows is you need some kind of unplanned event to go your way and push things over the edge as political intentionality historically does not deliver the warm blooded radical aspirations of the given radicals. Usually there is recuperation or the radical tendency plays a role in facilitating a new phase of continuing history(1st international 1886 ideology and now post ww2 1968 ideology). Outside of some type of happy accident or collapse radical failure is the norm.