The fallacy here is that we only have the two choices, a choice between bad and worse. That isn't so. If the federal government does not abide by the constitution, the states have the right to abolish it. Maybe we should be thinking in those terms.
From whence springs this right of the states to abolish the federal government?
That's the "important". Right now the "urgent" is upon us.
VOTE!
Okay then, you've laid out three choices - the bad, the worse and the completely unrealistic.