If it is fashionable to "cry" about how far this nation has strayed from its founding principles, those of limited government and individual liberty, it is only because it is undeniably the case that it has thus strayed.  

Face it, our founders fought against the British for FAR less infringements of liberty than we routinely suffer today.  Most current Americans not only have no idea of why, and under what widely accepted principles, this nation was founded, they would (and do) repudiate that heritage, and those principles, even if they understood them.