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IMHO, the most intelligent choice is pulling the levers for enviros.
Why? If voting for an enviro means helping a Republican wins the race (either because the Republican is the enviro or because you're voting for a Green candidate or whatever), you've made environmental protection less likely to happen.
My Libertarian friend's position is that voting L is the principled and most intelligent choice if only a majority will do the same.
My hypothetical is the same... "IMHO, the most intelligent national choice is pulling the levers for enviros, provided that everybody does the same to prevent the ongoing environmental disaster unfolding before us.
I do appreciate your point that voting D is intelligent in the short term, ie. pragmatic, to stop the fascist/racist trend infecting the US.