We must get out of the mindset of expecting salvation from a political party. James Madison was all over this. It is why the Framers’ Constitution set up not only separation of powers, but separation of electors as well, which minimized the deleterious effect of parties.
We really screwed up when we assigned the same electors to all of Congress. The outcome, eventual tyranny, was a certainty. To finish off our republic, the rats will soon get around the electoral college and democratize the executive branch as well.
And an Article V COS is dangerous? Barf.
We also screwed up in two other respects. First, our voting system (aside from being a dysfunctional mess) allows the uninformed, greedy takers to negate the votes of the productive makers in society. So what’s the point of responsible citizens bothering to vote in a system which favors the people who want to raid the treasury and bend the rules to suit themselves?
Second, we have allowed government to expand to the point that it now regulates, controls, taxes and influences literally everything in society. We allowed the principles of federalism to die in exchange for government largesse and the notion that it will generally taking care of us if only we entrust our fate to them.
Third, the Founding Fathers took great pains to protect us from the inevitable abuses of power by big government. We ignored their warnings and now we are paying the price. We have mostly relinquished our rights to liberty, privacy and self-protection.
For these and other reasons the republic as we once knew it is gone. I no longer recognize the country I grew up in. It is a faded memory.
An Article V COS just makes the process that much faster.
And since I believe an Article V COS will result in the elimination of the electoral college, the Senate, and the State Legislatures, we will have nothing but a big, beautiful, socialist government run by the group that has the most factions aligned with its overall promises ... just like they have all across Europe.