Barry isn't hip. He's a fraud wearing mom jeans. Further, McCain and Romney aren't traditionalists; they're passionless, middle-of-the-road, compromising weaklings hand-picked by the stupid GOP Elite who believe moderates win elections. Tell it to Ronald Reagan and then get back to me.
There is a natural order of customs: A value influences a practice that becomes a tradition. Once separated by time from the value, the tradition is questioned and abandoned as inconvenient and unjustified. That value either has merit and reemerges in a new practice or dies a natural death.
The trend in organized civilizations is to extend the life a tradition by making it law. This can either be a beneficent move that preserves perpetual wisdom or a sanctimonious imposition that attempts to put an end to the debate.
An admirable example of canonized...
Commies love power. There are no men fit to rule over other men. The Constitution is our king. The Constitution stands in the way of people that want to use government to oppress us dumb masses.
We the people do not need the government to take care of us. We need the government to follow the rules that have been laid down for them.
"Marxist" refers to the philosophy.
"Communism" refers only to a form of government.