We have a similar non-tradition tradition in the States, which is our obsession with "God" in official government stuff. We added the phrase "In God we trust" to money in 1956 and "under God" to our pledge of allegiance around the same time, but despite the fact that this is well known, if you ask any conservative they'll tell you it's always been that way.
That one always cracks be up, because America literally wouldn't exist as an ideal if not for the coveting of our neighbor's goods and, especially, his wives. Neither would Amazon be so popular if we all decided we couldn't get a 4-pack of AA batteries delivered within 3 hours on the Sabbath.
The thing liberals don't get about conservatives is it's not about believing the thing, it's about saying you believe the thing because saying you believe the thing proves you're a member of the tribe. This book contains the observation that every culture on earth has a "delicacy" that is universally regarded as absolutely vile, yet held as the pinnacle of culture so that outsiders can be hazed into the good company of its society. Liberals are the dumb shits that only do what they intend, not what they perform to demonstrate allegiance. Liberals are the dumb shits who get bent out of shape about "hypocrisy" as if you don't stumble in your path to truth from time to time. Liberals are the dumb shits who get hung up on the textbook definitions of "figurative" or "performative" or "symbolic" as if any of that shit means anything to god, tradition or culture. A liberal can't be against gay marriage and have a gay married daughter. They don't understand that the exceptions prove the rule, there are good Germans, good Blacks, good Jews, good Muslims, good Russians, good dictators, etc. Conservatism is the flexible framework that aligns you by everything that you're against while also allowing you to carve out examples that prove God's love touches everyone.
100. This phenomenon should have been an impetus for making Larry Craig a verb.The thing liberals don't get about conservatives is it's not about believing the thing, it's about saying you believe the thing because saying you believe the thing proves you're a member of the tribe.
That phrase has been on money since the Civil War era.