The Liberal state lives by prerequisites which it cannot create or even maintain. It’s been spending the inherited social capital of the last thousand years of Western Civilization without any way to replenish it. That process is now nearing its end. The social capital is finally beginning to dry up. You can only keep the game going for so long until a combination of collapsing birth rates, demographic changes, debt, nihilism, mental illness, and the erosion of institutional legitimacy eventually derail the entire system.