I hear what you are saying and I believe the foundation upon which this country was founded upon has been crumbling for quite some time. It has been obvious that Washington is broken and cannot be fixed for awhile. The GOP has been completely hijacked and those Congressmen refusing to align themselves with Trump are either horrified by him or saving their own necks for future re-election. The realization that Trump will be no better, if not worse than Clinton is starting to sink in.
Our last hope is to work (time is of the essence) to maintain our conservative governors in the States and stand behind them.
Perhaps a government collapse is needed in order to restore it. The Constitution is one of the greatest documents ever written and we have been complacent in allowing the federal government to control the states; more provisions and protections should have been given to the individual states to avoid government overreach; and perhaps term limits should have been imposed on the Supreme Court justices. Cruz tried to stop the annihilation of our country and almost succeeded. I don't think he's going away anytime soon nor are his supporters.
With all due respect, you are looking at solutions from a purely political standpoint and those things are not going to slow, stop or reverse the tyranny and collapse we are on.
If you look at the model of what God blessed that forged our nation in the first place - the CULTURE of people has to be a religious and moral people bound by a common faith. A faith in the belief that their Creator expects them to be self-governed by His Laws and Principles without the yoke of men dictating their lives. If God were the most important thing to such a culture and people - and they yearned to live free of tyrants who intended to bring them under subjection to the authority of men via financial, legal and then military punishment - such a people would not be concerned about financial punishments and would defy, refuse and resist such encroachments upon their liberties. That will incite the iron fist of the tyrant to be visited upon them which would be their justification to go to war against that which has become unfit to govern a free people and throw off the chains and install new guards for their liberties.
But we are no longer those people. Churches themselves by and large want nothing to do with the call for repentance and to stand against the evil hedonism being imposed by law and decree across the land.
As such, political solutions are doomed to fail and conflict will simply be a bloodbath of vengeance ala France in the 1790's.
You cannot stop tyranny and corruption as it is now instituted via civil means. Period. Fact of history and human nature.
Article V was a solution we could have employed decades ago, but this corrupted people today and the institutions they are beholden to that have abandoned the rule of law - will never be constrained by any attempt to impose the rule of law upon them.
They will employ mass brutality to protect their power and often incite dependent mobs to help them do so. Another fact of history and human nature.
What are we willing to risk to restore what we have already surrendered?