Ok is it just me or does this ‘new’ version just SCREAM ‘Run on sentence written by a lawyer on crack’? Holy cow that hurts my eyes to read it. What’s wrong with the old version?
Because ...well...it's...well, b/c it's old. That's why. It's so twentieth century...so bourgeois...
It's not just you, and it's the sort of thing that we can look forward to here in the USA if the Left is allowed to prevail.
What’s wrong with the old version?
It reminds the bearer that he or she is part of a great nation with very ancient, important and special traditions that have stood the tests of time. All of this is anathema to the EU in that it suggests that the weight of history has significance, as opposed to the EU's desire that all people instantly embrace a "constitution" drawn up by West-hating Marxist / socialist attorneys and diplomats in Brussels, with the primary focus being the elimination of important traditions, not the maintenance of them. Traditions stand in the way of the forward march of worldwide socialism, something that they cannot tolerate.