Just supposing you are a traditionalist Christian who wants to submit to the objective authority of The One True Church...

Just supposing you are a traditionalist Christian who wants to submit to the objective authority of The Church; because you believe that The Church has been ordained by God and Jesus Christ as the timeless repository of objective truth...

What then? 

First you will join that church. 

Immediately you are confronted by a problem: Which particular branch of that church do you join? Where do you go? Who do you ask? What do you believe?

There is dissent, there are conflicts, the validity of various churches within the church is contested - often vehemently. One branch says that another branch is apostate, or heretical - these judgments may indeed be reciprocal. 

Where do you even begin to start to join the true church, when it is not clear what "The Church" actually is?

At the very first hurdle the traditionalist has no alternative but to use his own personal discernment. 

He cannot obey or submit until after he has personally decided who is worthy of his obedience and submission. 

And this absolute and unavoidable requirement for personal discernment never stops! 

Even once he has converted, and is within his chosen branch of the True Church; he will find conflicting beliefs and instructions. He will not discover coherent uniformity, but instead dissent and conflict. 

The traditionalist may be absolutely genuine in his motivation to obey and submit to absolute eternal Truth as defined by the Essential Church - but at every turn he will be compelled to discern who and where this Truth is located - because there are always multiple and exclusive claimants of authority. 

The traditionalist does not want to choose - indeed his faith is built upon the conviction that personal discernment of Truth is inadequate and spiritually perilous - yet he cannot escape the necessity!

What then is his reaction to the brute fact of endemic and inescapable discernment? 

Sadly, too often, his reaction is to deny that it is happening. 

His reaction is to claim (or pretend) that - as a traditionalist - he is simply obedient; humbly submitting to the external and objective authority of The Church. 

His essential and frequent acts of personal discernment are swept under the carpet, hand-waved into oblivion, suppressed and then forgotten...

And instead the traditionalist maintains his attention externally, outside of himself; by embracing a zealous stance of near-continuous attack on anyone who dissents from what he has personally discerned to be the ideal of submissive obedience to the One True Objective Church's Authority. 

Well, people can apparently convince themselves of almost anything; but they cannot prevent others from seeing just exactly what they are doing.