Der Gleichschaltung demands your presence at the gathering

All together now

That’s a German expression from the Nazi era meaning total conformity to the state:  "Consolidation. All of the German Volk’s social, political, and cultural organizations to be controlled and run according to Nazi ideology and policy. All opposition to be eliminated."

The Germans may have coined the term, but communists and other dictatorships also employ it and now it’s forcing its way into the US. Chick-fil-A’s denying funding to the Salvation Army is just one recent example, the latest came Sunday night:

Hallmark has caved to demands from people who don’t, and won’t watch their cheesy movies, and will now add plots with lesbians, gays, transgenders and presumably threesomes.

I have never watched one of these Hallmark specials and barring an armed intruder forcing me to, I never will, but that’s not the point: neither have Hallmark’s critics. In our brave new world no one is permitted to hold ideas different than those dictated by the masters, and dissension is ruthlessly rooted out. For some curious reason, they’re currently using homosexual sex as the tip of the spear, but that’s just one weapon. Obama enunciated the goal: the fundamental transformation of America, and to accomplish that, everything must go, from church to patriotism and pride of country to the work ethic to individualism. The western canon of literature and philosophy and art has been replaced by barf from mewling stooges, our science replaced by a new Soviet-style method where there is no objective truth, only constructs from social wokeness.

And so on. Hallmark is just another of their conquests, another example of them discovering and rooting out a pocket of people with outdated, incorrect political thought who must be extirpated.

Transgender twerking lessons for kindergarteners is no accident.

On the other hand, our Paper of Record has found Hallmark’s quavering obeisance acceptable, sort of.

Some people said the development was "kinda comforting," though, since it's a tried and true formula where there aren't any surprises. Viewers said having the same plot repeat itself over and over is better than having to watch a confusing new plot, like if a company were to stand up to the LGBT lobby and stay true to traditional values despite the financial cost.

"Sometimes it's nice to know that the world continues to spin, the sun continues to rise in the east, and companies will continue to cower before the powerful LGBT lobby day in and day out," said one Hallmark Channel fan in Iowa. "There's something reassuring about it all."

"It's kinda heartwarming, to be honest."