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NYT Calls For ‘War-Gaming’ Insurgency, Secession, Civil War

By Discover The Networks

New York Times essay last Thursday titled “We Need to Think the Unthinkable About Our Country,” called to intensify “war games” for scenarios concerning the 2024 presidential elections such as “insurrection, secession, insurgency and civil war,” in order to avert “America’s abject political decay.”

The essay was penned by Jonathan Stevenson, former National Security Council staffer under Obama, and Steven Simon, a former State Department staffer in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama administrations.

It begins by claiming that the U.S. is “even more alarmingly fractious and divided” one year after the January 6 Capitol breach, which the Left has falsely deemed an “insurrection” that represented such a serious threat to democracy that they want to commemorate it every year as a reminder that supporters of former President Trump are domestic terrorists.

“Regrettably, the right has sustained its support for Donald Trump and continued its assault on American democratic norms,” the authors ranted. They argue — correctly — that the next presidential election “will almost inevitably be viciously (perhaps violently) contested,” but they neglect to mention that it is the Democrats who violently contest election results that don’t go their way. Instead, the authors claim that “a right-wing minority — including many elected politicians — is now practicing a form of brinkmanship by threatening to unilaterally destroy American democracy.”

Stevenson and Simon posit hysterically that “War games, tabletop exercises, operations research, campaign analyses, conferences and seminars on the prospect of American political conflagration — including insurrection, secession, insurgency and civil war — should be proceeding at a higher tempo and intensity.”

This is fear-mongering demagoguery and incitement to violence. The left’s chief propaganda outlet — the New York Times — is outright pushing for civil war against its political opponents. They are the ones threatening to destroy American democracy.


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Today The New York Times is America’s largest metropolitan newspaper and one of the most widely read dailies in the world, with a circulation (as of 2006) of approximately 1,142,464 copies on weekdays and 1,683,855 copies on Sundays. Owned by The New York Times Company, which also owns the Boston Globe and 14 other newspapers, the Times is published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. and is distributed internationally. It has 16 news bureaus in the New York region, 11 national news bureaus, and 26 foreign news bureaus. As of December 2005, the Times staff consisted of more than 350 full-time reporters and approximately 40 photographers, in addition to hundreds of free-lance contributors.

During the course of its history the Times has won 94 Pulitzer Prizes (including a record seven in 2002), far more than any other newspaper. These awards have sometimes been fraught with controversy, however. For example, Walter Duranty was a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Moscow correspondent in the 1930s who concealed his knowledge of Joseph Stalin‘s mass murders and other atrocities in the Soviet Union. In 1933, at the height of the Russian famine during which millions starved to death, Duranty wrote that “village makets [were] flowing with eggs, fruit, poultry, vegetables, milk and butter. … A child can see this is not famine but abundance.” According to historians, reports such as these were crucial factors influencing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to grant the Soviet Union diplomatic recognition in 1933. Writes historian Ronald Radosh,  “Duranty was a propagandist for Stalin and everything he wrote was a lie.”

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