Voters, do not fall victim to keywords in 2026

Dennis darnoi
| Detroit news

The thing about modern politics is that, as soon as a single choice is completed, the next season of the campaign begins. It starts both in large and small ways. Some actions are simply inanimate, such as choosing the following president in a interactive bracket of 32 candidates, of 32 candidates. Others are more familiar, such as signaling an intention to take place by forming an exploration committee or by calling your strategist in some favors at Vanity Fair.

Because most people have lives to live and payable invoices, it becomes very easy for people involved in the world of politics to use the years of non -election as a testing ground for ideas and concepts in the hope of creating a supporting land behind a narrative that prophesies its key word in relevance.

For those with a certain age, the word “triangular”, as well as the “compassionate conservative” phrases and “hope and change”, bears specific political connotations. Of course, not every attempt to currency a new phrase is successful. The introduction of last year of the “economy of opportunity” has certainly decreased and has gained little or without traction.

As we go forward to the elections of 2026 and 2028, a new word is trying to find the light of the spotlight in the center of the scene. The loan in the concept discussed in self-help circles, “abundance” has become the latest term for Wannabe thinkers in the world of politics. In the next few months until one year, you notice how certain authors and politicians try to define abundance in a way that will force you to fall passively in line.

Watch how it creates a false dicotomy between abundance and shortage as a rejection of the belief that America can again become a bright city on a hill. When politicians promise in abundance, ask yourself to offer tangible policies to improve people’s lives or that offer another term that feels good, which fade with the next electoral cycle.

Michiganians understand better than most need to separate the authentic opportunity from empty slogans, tested by the survey. During the lost decade in Michigan, I heard a lot about the “creative class” and attracting “cool cities”. However, at an era when the government chose winners and defeated and embraced the redistribution of wealth through an inequitable fiscal policy, everything we obtained was a quality of decimated life.

Those who embrace an abundance agenda will recognize that the population of blue states such as California, New York and Illinois at the same time decreases the population in red states, such as Texas and Florida, grow. But a movement that deals with the reasons why it is and is based on the dollars of taxpayers before reforming an inefficient system is just an effort to devise real and heavy choices.

History can be tragically ironic and, as Michigan approaches the 2026 elections, we must make sure that we are not distracted by keywords and empty promises. Doing this would be to make sure that we have done each other in another lost decade.

Dennis Dardo is a Republican political consultant in Michigan.