The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 9 - Liberalism Is A Death Cult

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, everybody. Thanks for watching. As you can see, a different set today. I'm not happy about it. I'm not in my car. I'm in a hotel room in Cincinnati. I had a speaking gig last night. And so that's why I'm here. I don't like the, it's way too open. It's way too big. I like to be in the enclosed cocoon of the car. I don't really like the, what's the opposite of claustrophobic? Is it agoraphobic or is that something else? I don't know.

00:00:26.160 But whatever it is, that's what I, that's how I feel. I just, I, in the, sitting in this vast 50 square foot hotel room, it's just very bewildering. But I'll try to get past it so we can talk because this is an important topic I want to get into.

00:00:39.340 A couple of things happened last week that I've been wanting to do a video about for a few days now. First, Hawaii became either the fifth or sixth state to legalize youth in Asia. And a few days before that, there was a disturbing story out of Canada, which, by the way, Canada is the source of quite a few disturbing stories as of late.

00:01:03.280 Canada is like the new Florida or something. I don't know what's going on up there in Canada, but you guys need to figure that thing out. In this case, it was about an elderly couple who was married for over 70 years and they decided to commit suicide together.

00:01:20.660 Or as the media puts it, they decided to receive a, a doctor assisted death. So that's the new, you know, we went from suicide to euthanasia to doctor assisted suicide. Now we call it receiving a doctor assisted death. So you're receiving death. Like, uh, you know, it's a gift. It's like, it's like a gift that you receive on Christmas morning, except in this case, it's poison in your veins and you're dead.

00:01:46.900 So we're receiving death. If, if you ever wonder why we call our culture, the culture of death, that's why, because we, we are literally treating it like a gift that we've given someone like a birthday present. Um, their names were George and Shirley Brickenden, and they decided that they wanted to commit suicide together. So they, they, um, announced it to the family and they went through a series of, they had a reception.

00:02:15.340 They went through a series of these macabre kind of farewell ceremonies, much like you may, you know, if you maybe walked into a restaurant or something and you saw it going on, you would think, oh, they're having a retirement party or, oh, they're, you know, they're moving to, they're moving down South to a, to a new, to a retirement home. Uh, and everyone's coming to say goodbye.

00:02:36.140 No, they were doing this because they were killing themselves. Um, when the time came, we're told by the media reports, they laid in bed together and they held hands.

00:02:48.900 And then a doctor injected poison into their veins, a lethal injection, just like they would do to, um, to criminals, to convicted murderers and their closest loved ones, apparently stood at the, stood at the foot of the bed and watched their parents, um, die.

00:03:09.980 Now they are not the first married couple. I hate to say who have received death in this way. Um, a couple in the Netherlands had what they called their deepest wish fulfilled when they committed suicide together.

00:03:24.140 A couple in Oregon had their own wish fulfilled a few years ago in the same kind of way or a few months ago, actually, you know, it was originally claimed if you're wondering why you should care about this, well, we're going to talk about that.

00:03:39.300 But first of all, you should care about it because it's just disgusting, inhumane and horrific, but also it was claimed originally that euthanasia would be something we would reserve it only for individual adults.

00:03:54.140 Who are terminally ill. That's what we said. We were told it. That's all it is. Individual adult, terminally ill on their deathbed. Um, then they can get euthanasia, but as with everything else with the left, the analogy I've used before is, um, when you're, when you were a kid, maybe you read the book.

00:04:12.180 Uh, if you give a mouse a cookie and that's all about this cookie that, you know, the kid gives them a mouse, the kid gives the mouse a cookie. Then he comes back and he wants a glass of milk.

00:04:24.340 And then he wants a napkin. Then he wants a fork for some reason. And before you know, he's, he's, he's, he's eaten them out of house and home because he just kept, the kid just kept satiating the mouse.

00:04:32.180 So the left is a lot like that. They're like the mouse in that, in that disturbing fable where you give them one thing, except that the cookies that they want are again, horrific, but you give them the one thing you think that's it.

00:04:45.560 And then they come back and they say, Oh, actually, can I have this too? Oh, you know, wow. We're here. How about that as well?

00:04:49.660 So it started with euthanasia, individual adults, terminally ill. And now we treat it like a romantic getaway for, for, for elderly couples. Or, you know, we also have, um, in Europe and I'm sure it will be here soon enough, euthanasia for people who are depressed, euthanasia for people who are alcoholics, euthanasia for children.

00:05:11.880 That's what's happening in Europe. You see, the culture of death is a cancer and it spreads and it consumes and it never, ever stops. There's, it will never get to a point where it says, Oh, that's enough. We'll leave you alone. Never stops. It whittles away at life on both ends, ends of the spectrum.

00:05:31.300 So we were working on the, the unborn babies. We're, we're, um, killing them off. And then we come in on the other end with the elderly and the sick, and then we whittle them away too. Until we're kind of just, you know, we're just sort of meeting in the middle so that you're not safe unless you're a 27 year old college educated, completely healthy person. That's, that's where we're headed. 0.93

00:05:57.780 Where that's, that's the only, you know, if you're, if you fall into that demographic, then we can use you in society. If not, we got to get rid of you. 0.93

00:06:05.500 Um, and that's why, because it's all part of this greater agenda on the left. That's why the left can barely contain their enthusiasm when it comes to euthanasia.

00:06:17.340 Uh, whenever there's a famous euthanasia case, they just fall, they trip over themselves to congratulate the person. Remember Brittany Maynard a couple of years ago.

00:06:27.780 Was a famous one in Oregon, I believe. And she announced ahead of time that she was getting doctor-assisted suicide and the left and the media, they were just ecstatic. They were like, Oh, she's so courageous, such a beautiful thing.

00:06:38.520 And, you know, it's just imagine for a moment. I mean, I'm in a hotel room right now. It's like 20 stories high. So imagine there was a guy standing up on the roof, 20 stories up, and he was about to jump.

00:06:55.940 And what the left is doing, basically, is they're, they're, they're coming up and they're saying, Oh, wow, you're so brave. Yes, jump, die with dignity. You're so courageous. This is so wonderful. I mean, it brings a tear to my eye. It's such a beautiful thing.

00:07:11.700 What really is the difference between cheering a guy on who's standing on the ledge of a building and cheering somebody on who's going to a doctor to get a poison pill or a poison injection?

00:07:24.220 What's the difference? There's no difference. It's suicide either way. Now we could try to dress up euthanasia, call it something else, you know, have them lay down in the bed.

00:07:33.720 We call it medicine. We say they're receiving death. But in the end, it's the same thing as jumping off a building. In fact, jumping off a building is probably a more painless death, really.

00:07:44.940 So there's no difference. That's why I get upset about it. I get upset about it for the same reason that I would be upset if there was a guy in the building and then you came up and said, Yeah, go for it.

00:07:55.300 Or if I was trying to talk him off the ledge and you said, Hey, how dare you? Mind your own business. If the guy wants to jump, let him jump.

00:08:00.180 But if you did that, we would all agree that you are a monster, right? Everyone in society would agree that if you cheered on someone committing suicide, you're a monster.

00:08:12.260 But if you did it in the context of euthanasia, then, well, you're just a liberal.

00:08:17.480 So people were, you know, the left was gushing over this suicide.

00:08:21.800 And the main thing that you hear over and over again, whether it's with the Brick and Dens or it's with Brittany Maynard or whoever else, it's that, well, they're dying with dignity.

00:08:34.460 But no, they're not.

00:08:39.380 It's exactly the opposite.

00:08:42.140 Now, we're told that George and Shirley, that they, you know, they lived wonderful, full lives and they were good people.

00:08:47.600 I hope that's true. I didn't know them personally.

00:08:50.820 But if it is true, it makes it all the worse in the end that they chose to be put down like dogs.

00:08:56.720 It just makes it worse.

00:09:00.220 Because that life of dignity, they just punted in the end and their family cheered it on and applauded and encouraged it.

00:09:07.660 Where is the dignity in that?

00:09:09.240 Let me ask you.

00:09:11.380 When your dog gets very old and he's sick, you take him to the doctor and they strap him down and they inject something into him.

00:09:18.580 Where is the dignity in a human being being discarded like that?

00:09:23.900 Dignity is found when you embrace life and you persevere through difficulty.

00:09:32.580 Suicide is the opposite of that.

00:09:36.460 There's dignity here and then there's suicide all the way on the opposite end.

00:09:40.260 It's diametrically opposed.

00:09:42.100 It's like up and down, north and south.

00:09:45.620 Dignity and suicide.

00:09:46.760 There is no such thing as a dignified suicide.

00:09:50.500 A man of dignity is a man of self-respect.

00:09:53.900 You can't respect yourself if you're destroying yourself.

00:09:57.980 It's not possible.

00:09:59.740 Self-annihilation and self-respect cannot be the same.

00:10:04.320 Because once you've annihilated yourself, there's no self left to respect.

00:10:07.660 Now, here's what happens.

00:10:13.740 When you question the dignity of suicide, and by the way, not just with euthanasia, but I have found, when you question the dignity of any kind of suicide, even if a guy is jumping off a building or whatever else, whenever you do that, people get very upset.

00:10:32.960 They don't want you to besmirch the dignity of suicide.

00:10:39.440 And they say that it's cruel and it's heartless.

00:10:44.280 How dare you?

00:10:45.780 I've heard this many times, any time I've talked about this subject.

00:10:49.060 But you know what I say to that?

00:10:50.660 How dare you?

00:10:51.560 If you're in the pro-euthanasia, pro-suicide camp, you're the one who's heartless and cruel.

00:10:59.840 You're the heartless, cruel monster.

00:11:02.320 Not me.

00:11:02.820 Not only are you encouraging more people to murder themselves by glorifying suicide, but you are very clearly implying that the people who don't kill themselves, yet are terminally ill or very old, you're clearly implying that they do not have dignity.

00:11:24.980 What you're saying is, if it's dignified to kill yourself before death naturally takes you, then it must be undignified to wait around for it to take you.

00:11:39.300 Both of those strategies can't be dignified.

00:11:41.840 So what you're saying is that a cancer patient who dies in his bed naturally, you're saying he lacks dignity.

00:11:51.480 You're saying that an old man who decides to live and cherish every moment that God has given him, you're saying that he lacks dignity. 0.88

00:12:02.500 If euthanasia is dignified, it is dignified because you are avoiding a slow and drawn-out death.

00:12:09.640 What about the ones who don't avoid it?

00:12:12.200 What you're saying, if you're in this camp, you're saying that they are the ones who don't have dignity.

00:12:19.100 So, yeah, you could accuse me of besmirching suicide.

00:12:23.480 I'd rather besmirch suicide than besmirch life itself.

00:12:26.420 We're so desperate in this culture to hold up suicide as this grand and elegant thing that we turn life into a dirty and shameful thing.

00:12:43.120 These people, they hail the courage of a man who kills himself to avoid suffering.

00:12:47.620 And in the process, they make a coward of a guy who embraces his suffering and finds a meaning in it.

00:12:59.280 So that's the dignity part of this.

00:13:03.080 There is no dignity in it.

00:13:05.480 Dignity, again, is in someone who is given life and embraces it no matter how much suffering is involved.

00:13:17.620 That's what it means to die with dignity.

00:13:20.860 Even if you're in a hospital bed.

00:13:22.420 Even if you're whittling away from an illness or something.

00:13:32.020 There's still a lot of dignity in that.

00:13:35.640 I mean, the people that accept that fate and who die with courage and, you know, on God's time.

00:13:41.300 The other thing that people say about euthanasia is that it allows someone to go out their own way and to take charge and to exercise autonomy and so on.

00:13:54.460 We'll say, oh, they're doing it their way, right?

00:13:57.320 That's what we say about the brick and dens.

00:13:58.520 They're doing it their way.

00:14:00.860 Well, there are a few problems with that.

00:14:03.260 First of all, euthanasia is not doing it your way.

00:14:08.400 You aren't taking charge of anything.

00:14:11.040 If you could really take ownership of yourself, if you could really be in charge of yourself, then I imagine you wouldn't die at all.

00:14:17.760 If it were up to you, you would choose not to die.

00:14:21.780 But it isn't.

00:14:22.860 So you have to die.

00:14:23.780 So there's no taking charge of that.

00:14:25.300 So, you know, trying to take charge or do it your own way so you kill yourself before you die.

00:14:30.960 That's like if you heard that a guy is coming to your house to burn it to the ground, and so you head him off at the pass by burning it to the ground yourself.

00:14:37.980 And then when he shows up, you say, you see what I did?

00:14:40.960 You see, I won.

00:14:44.300 No, in that case, to take charge of the situation would be to stand outside your house with a shotgun, and when the guy comes, you make him leave.

00:14:51.540 But you can't do that with death.

00:14:58.120 When death comes, and it will for all of us, all you can do is accept it.

00:15:03.720 You can choose to accept it earlier than God intends and by your own hand, but that is no kind of victory.

00:15:10.940 But I think the biggest problem here with that way of thinking is that our lives, our deaths as well, these are not things that we can own.

00:15:25.460 People want to own death.

00:15:28.520 You know, they want to grab a hold of it.

00:15:31.680 That's what euthanasia is all about.

00:15:33.580 It's what the culture of death is.

00:15:35.180 Much of it, that's what it's about.

00:15:36.320 It's about grabbing hold of death and trying to make it into something controllable.

00:15:44.760 So ironically, it's the people who fear death the most who are the ones who are in favor of euthanasia and all that.

00:15:53.960 Because it's the nature of death.

00:15:55.500 It's the suddenness of death.

00:15:57.040 It's the unwieldy, uncontrollable nature of death that they fear, and they think they can make it a less fearful thing by grabbing hold of it

00:16:05.520 and, quote, doing it on their terms.

00:16:08.120 But death is not something you can grab hold of, nor should you try.

00:16:12.160 It's not something you can own.

00:16:14.900 For the same reason that we can't own our lives.

00:16:18.520 As much as we talk about bodily autonomy, there's no autonomy.

00:16:22.760 And this is what's so beautiful and terrifying and mysterious and wonderful and awful about life,

00:16:27.480 is that it's outside of our control.

00:16:32.520 I didn't decide to come into existence, to come into being.

00:16:37.620 I didn't decide who I was going to be.

00:16:39.560 I didn't decide what my identity was going to be.

00:16:41.580 I didn't decide who my parents were, what my family was.

00:16:45.880 I didn't decide what country I would be born in.

00:16:48.760 I didn't decide consciously to have my heart pump and my lungs breathe and my blood flow.

00:16:56.140 All that stuff happens on its own.

00:16:59.500 I didn't decide anything about the culture, the civilization, the country that I was born into.

00:17:03.720 This was all selected for me by something else or someone else.

00:17:09.100 And if you're an atheist, then you believe that it was all decided by a series of accidents and circumstances.

00:17:14.500 And you could have just as well been born a cockroach or a tree or a kangaroo.

00:17:21.540 And really, there's very little difference between all of those different things.

00:17:24.860 Because life is happenstance and you are happenstance.

00:17:28.360 You are effectively meaningless.

00:17:31.380 But even then, even from the atheistic point of view, by this logic, euthanasia makes no sense.

00:17:37.560 It's a crime against nature, really.

00:17:39.500 In an atheist world, all you have is this existence, that's it. 0.93

00:17:45.140 And then it's over.

00:17:46.440 And then you just, you just, you just kind of dissolve into the void.

00:17:55.060 And there's nothing left of you.

00:17:57.520 So the only imperative in a world like that is just to live and to extend your existence for as long as possible.

00:18:07.360 That's the only point.

00:18:09.500 If we live in an atheistic world, there is no point to life other than simply to live it for as long as possible, and then you don't exist.

00:18:19.920 So in an atheistic world, euthanasia is a sick joke.

00:18:23.660 It's a crime against the Darwinian order of things.

00:18:27.580 Really.

00:18:28.060 And then from a religious perspective, from a monotheistic perspective, all of this, my life, my circumstance, my identity, it was decided by a divine force, by God, before the beginning of time.

00:18:41.720 And so I, this is the beautiful thing, that I was an idea in the mind of God.

00:18:51.420 And he spoke me into existence from the midst of eternity.

00:18:56.020 He plucked me out of eternity, and he placed me into time.

00:19:02.460 Which is a beautiful thing.

00:19:05.020 And I belong to him, I am his creation.

00:19:08.440 I own nothing, least of all my own life.

00:19:12.060 Every day that I wake up, every step I take, every pulse of my heart, all of this is sustained by God.

00:19:20.000 All of it.

00:19:22.120 And he has a plan, he has a reason.

00:19:24.000 Every morning when I wake up, it's, okay, well, that's another, I guess I get another day.

00:19:31.440 Or at least another few moments.

00:19:33.800 And there's a reason for that.

00:19:36.120 You might not understand the reason.

00:19:38.300 I might not understand the reason completely.

00:19:42.400 But there's a reason.

00:19:45.280 If God, if God decides when your time is up, when your story's finished,

00:19:50.940 there's going to come a point when your story really is finished, when it's been told.

00:19:56.340 When you've done everything you could do, or that God wanted you to do.

00:20:02.920 And for better or worse, that's the end of it.

00:20:05.040 Last page, right?

00:20:07.540 That time will come.

00:20:09.720 And we don't know when.

00:20:11.060 And some people end up with much bigger books than others.

00:20:14.000 But that's for God to decide.

00:20:15.320 And to reject the life that he's given me, to reject even one day of it,

00:20:24.720 to reject one hour, one minute, is a terrible thing.

00:20:30.120 It's the worst thing in the world.

00:20:32.340 Because I've not only rejected my life, but I've rejected the entire world.

00:20:37.620 The world that he has made for me, I have rejected it.

00:20:44.220 I've said, I don't want it anymore, God.

00:20:48.760 And in doing that, I've also rejected God.

00:20:53.340 So, take your pick.

00:20:56.260 Either you believe in God or you don't.

00:20:59.320 You're an atheist or you're not. 0.93

00:21:01.360 Maybe you're somewhere in between.

00:21:02.340 But no matter where you fall on the spectrum, euthanasia is a horrific, horrible, terrible thing.

00:21:11.500 And we should all be against it.

00:21:13.840 And I haven't even talked about, to save this for another video, but the other big problem with euthanasia, aside from,

00:21:24.940 not that I really need to list any more problems with it, aside from what I've already said,

00:21:28.440 but we have the continued perversion and degradation of the medical profession.

00:21:37.860 You know, doctors are supposed, it's the Hippocratic Oath, doctors do no harm.

00:21:42.800 They're always supposed to heal and treat and cure.

00:21:47.380 That's the job of a doctor.

00:21:50.080 And because of abortion, and now with euthanasia, we have also made doctors into merchants of death.

00:21:56.380 Which is the exact opposite of what they're supposed to be, of what they're supposed to be.

00:22:03.380 We need doctors to cherish life.

00:22:09.280 And it becomes a very, you know, once euthanasia becomes commonplace, as it is not quite here yet, but in some parts of the world.

00:22:16.820 So, once it becomes commonplace, it's quite a conflict of interest for a doctor.

00:22:24.580 Or a conflict of something.

00:22:26.040 It's certainly an internal conflict.

00:22:30.560 Because in one room, you know, he goes to see a patient, and the patient is terminally ill.

00:22:35.780 Patient wants to live.

00:22:36.940 So, the doctor's fighting for his life.

00:22:41.420 The next room over, you know, a guy has the same terminal illness.

00:22:45.220 And in this case, he wants to die.

00:22:46.480 The doctor says, okay, here's some poison.

00:22:50.000 No, we want doctors to be wired to fight always for life.

00:22:57.300 Once they start dealing out death as well, it's the end of the medical profession.

00:23:00.920 And I think that's a pretty serious downside as well.

00:23:06.380 All right, that's it for me.

00:23:07.480 Hope you guys have a great weekend.

00:23:08.420 I'll talk to you on Monday.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 13, 2018

Ep. 9 - Liberalism Is A Death Cult

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