Patriotism, Where is your loyalty?

Freedom is an honor and to live in a country that allows certain freedoms. Many have dedicated their lives to protecting our freedoms. However, some of those freedoms get slowly retracted and stripped from us, like the analogy of a frog boiling in a pot of water. We wonder if this was gradual or something deliberate from the beginning that has crept in over time. Where was the loyalty of our founding father, and what purpose did they have for America?