Many of the people who write about the red pill on a theoretical / academic level often tie in their message with a warning about civilizational decline. It's complex, a massive oversimplification is:

(1) Change in gender roles --> unstable families --> declining fertility rates among upper / middle class, declining ability to function effectively among working / lower class (e.g., baby mommas, drugs, angry young males, women with daddy issues, etc...).

(2) The modern welfare state peversely promotes bad behavior by punishing men who take on the traditional provider role, especially if they get divorced (i.e., man in high-tax jurisdiction making $200k gets divorced, each year loses close to $100k in taxes and $50k in child support / alimony, meaning he only receives the benefit of 12.5 hours of work for a 50 hour professional work week) and by insulating single mothers and divorced moms from their sexual choices. More and more men end up opting out of a system that takes from their pocket with one hand while slapping them in the face with the other (misogynstic, patriarchy, blah blah blah).

(3) Immigrants can prop up the system if they are high-skill and pay into it, but the larger the welfare state and the more open the immigration system is more likely they will draw from the system rather than pay in, further exacerbating the problem. (Europe also has massive integration issues between secular progressives and conservative islamists.)

(4) Fertility decline + expanding welfare state = fewer and fewer workers and more and more debt.

(5) Political elite are unable / unwilling to identify the source of problem because it would violate PC pieties. Political elite and growing dependent class vote together as a block to continue to increase taxes, expand the government in an attempt to fix a problem unfixable without a complete cultural change.

(6) Political and cultural forces create a spiral of increasing fertility declines and emigration among those who want to start a family and increasing debt and taxes. Spiral grows out of control until countries start defaulting on their debt. In an interconnected system, this causes bank failures and further debt defaults.

Result: Great Depression 2.0? End of Democracy? Civil War between natives and immigrants in Europe?

Thoughts? Critiques? Is this doom-mongering or realistic? Strategies for self-preservation and preservation of family? Worth fighting back or just go your own way?