I'd actually leave the US.

When I think of hackers, I think of black hats like I once was, and most tech people know that knowledge is power, I think that hackers may justify what the NSA is doing and may take it further. (ex. how far do you track the ip's and associate them with users on a website)

Truth is though, with our generation being technically minded, it's inevitable that some of us will become the people in the background that fund political campaigns. Politicians are just front men with IOU's behind them.