"Trads were well represented at VII"? Whose history of the Council are you reading? Kung? Rahner? Leinhart?  More significantly, have you ever thought out the long term implications of your faulty theology? What if someone like Pius X comes along in ten years and {rightly} consigns GAUDUM and the other VII documents into history's dust bin? What will you say then? I will bet a few mortgage payments you would oppose such changes. And--in so doing--would that make you a "rad-{VII} trad"? Oh the irony/hypocrisy.