You certainly have that right!
I can more readily understand the feelings of those who were imposed on (and who are dealing with feelings of bitterness and hurt–not the same thing but sometimes having the same reactions) and who have had so little opportunity to be treated in a Christian way because of their Vatican approved preferences were deemed ‘unacceptable’ by those who did indeed impose THEIR will, and often over things that were emphatically not Vatican approved, to boot.
If you’ve spent 40 plus years being told, with sneers, jeers, disgust, mockery etc. that you --not just your preferences, but you YOURSELF, were 'not a real Catholic", were backward, lost, intransigent, hateful, judgmental, deluded, and that in order to be not even accepted but ‘tolerated’ (and still mocked over and over for how long it took you to ‘join the 21st century at every turn), and then finally you could point to the Motu Proprio, and you had voices of respected cardinals, bishops, priests, theologians etc who were backing you up by saying, “Yes, your preferences are not wrong” so that you finally feel, “Yes, the Church never kicked me, it was just the times and some individuals but now praise God, we can start to ‘get along’”. . .and then STILL at every turn, after a few people start to ask, “But why did this ever happen” or dare to say, "I’ve become aware of tradition but some of my friends at Mass are STILL telling me this stuff was thrown out and that Pope Francis is saying it was all wrong and we only are tolerated now because Pope Benedict was ‘weak’ and wanted to let the old people have the old ways before they died, but the whole point is that tradition, the EF, etc should be gotten rid of because it’s wrong blah blah, why are people still hostile when we thought this was finally put to rest’. . .
Sooner or later, mostly sooner, come the charges.
It’s all the ‘rad-trads’ fault.
And sooner or later, anything before ‘modern times’ becomes 'useless, a crutch, holier-than-thou, excessive, takes away from Jesus"
and EVERY person who even expresses a liking for tradition is assumed to be ‘rad-trad’ and can be once again mocked, jeered at, insulted, scorned, etc.
Strawmen leap up and there are so many that one cannot even begin to address them. Try, and you’ll be accused of so many different things your head will spin. All the old canards about the pray-pay-obey; the excessive amount of attention paid to Mary, the charge that we knew NOTHING because the Mass wasn’t in OUR language, the charge that all the focus is on outward things that are non essential, that we never had a relationship with God, that we dismissed ‘the marginalized’, that we’re Pharisees, that we hate women, the poor, other Christians, that we’re anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, that WE are the ones trying to enforce our evil ways on everybody else, etc. etc. etc.
