It just hit me. It's so obvious, so clear, but no one ever mentions this.
I've often talked about how finding a validly ordained priest is important, but it's not the only thing.
Well, here's the drop-dead killer argument: how many souls lost the Faith after decades of Vatican II and its Conciliar Church? How many lost belief in important dogmas, gave up countless Catholic practices, and became de-facto protestant in their thinking, beliefs, morals, and habits? What men pushed this agenda upon the Catholic laity?
VALID PRIESTS.
How many priests were valid, at the close of Vatican II? ALL OF THEM.
Who pushed the New Mass and the New Conciliar Religion upon the majority of Catholics? Valid priests!
Even if the New Rite of Ordination were 100% invalid, it would take SOME TIME for those invalid priests to work their way into the Conciliar parishes and join their VALIDLY ORDAINED BRETHREN in the wide-scale destruction of Catholicism.
Moral of the story: validity IS NOT EVERYTHING. You could go to a valid priest, attend a valid Mass, and yet absorb so much modernism, bad example, bad teaching, and bad milieu that you end up losing the Faith and all Catholic sense. BEWARE.