Here's some pre-Vat II theology:  

Luke 10:27 “He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

"Take up your cross, DAILY"

"Deny yourself"

"pray always"

"rejoice always"

self-empty.

All SOOO Pre-VAT II!

That Jesus.  How pre-Vat II He was!

Why does the left react with such projectile reflexes to these sorts of points from Jesus?

They parrot "don't judge" (without understanding the fuller and proper and more demanding meaning), but with any point that encourages us to live our Christian life, heroically, sacrificially, totally, trustingly, with abandonment, they characterize it as "pre-Vat theology'.