Leave the US then. You can do it. I did it for a year. It was awesome, and good for my mind. It made me appreciate the things we do have, because we do have some good stuff going here. But the news and the obvious decline of the middle class are upsetting. I lived in a country where I wasn't able to understand the news because of the language barrier, and in a lot of ways it felt like being a child again. Media couldn't bring me down, because I literally couldn't understand it. It was kind of freeing in a certain way.

Of course that means I was also oblivious to a lot of the corruption in that country, so I had the impression it was a very law-abiding and nice place, even if that wasn't really any more true than it was in America.

Seriously just leave the country if you want, you can always come back later.

Did you know you can buy permanent residency in Panama for about $8000? Did you know you can just go to Europe for 90 days without any prior arrangements? Just go, if you want to go. You can buy round-trip flights to Europe for about $500. Try out another life for a while if you feel trapped in this one.