To Tell the Fruth and Nothing but the Fruth

Fruth is what happens when fiction gets tangled up with the truth. Sometimes this occurs by accident or by being overly exuberant but more often this twist is intentional, and when done by skilled language manipulators fruth is difficult to identify. As a carefully concocted almost truth, fruth can misinform, mislead, and malign. It can sway elections, warp important decisions, turn a benign religion into an army, create mass hysteria and destroy nations. Fruth has caused witches to be burned, the innocent to be executed and allowed sociopaths to acquire high office. Politics is filled with fruth as differing opinions and opposing ideologies clash in the contest for public opinion. In 2015 abortion again became a flash point in the US congress when the religious right tried once again to blur the line between church and state by pitting the bible against the constitution. Facts in such arguments are not clear concepts and are easily fruthed. In this case party “R” threatened to hold the country’s budget hostage if an anti abortion provision was not included and forced party “D”, trying to keep the budget process clear of such side issues, to reject the infected bill. Then party “R” who originally threatened to shut down the government accused Party “D” of being the cause of the near shut down by not acquiescing to party “R’s” demands. It doesn’t get much fruthier than this ridiculous display of twisted truth.