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>if you compare the current state of the West with the collapsing Roman Empire what are the parallels that we can observe today that were also indicative for the collapsing Roman Empire /pol/? (sorry for the complex formulation)

Inflation

And the short term philosophies behind the polcies leading to it. Everything else (bread and circus, immigration, etc) is a symptom of the former.
Fix inflation and everything else will stabilize. They won't, even if you rip the parasite's body, its jaws are so tight the head is severed and stays in the body; and no one is willing to touch the tick.