Throughout this half century of democracy we have, wrongly, taken for granted options that History shows are never definitive.
In the dizziness of the electoral commitments that daily reality requires us to assume, in the answers to the questions that the foam of the day raises or lost in the myriad of “information” that invades social networks, we forget the essential.
And, the essential thing, is always the democratic regime and the human beings who inhabit and benefit from it.
And that is why the defense of freedom, collective and individual, must return to the center of political discourse.
Also, for the same reasons, Human Rights, both old and new, must be central to our daily lives. Not as a thundering and generic statement, but rather enumerating each one of them, in application to concrete life situations.
It is also necessary to be clear in pedagogy that, as the Portuguese have many forms of participation in collective life, forms that must be encouraged, the country opted for representative democracy to determine who assumes responsibilities for leading and directing the res publica.
In the same way, it is necessary to affirm, always and every day, that, in a democracy, votes, namely majority votes, provide legitimacy, not reason. And, above all, that we are all equal in rights and duties, even if we are all different in the individuality inherent to human beings.
The affirmation, without restrictions or prejudice, of the dignity of the human person is a cornerstone of everyday democratic pedagogy.
Not dignity as an abstraction that generates fanciful and discursive unanimity, but the dignity of each person, of the beggar or the manager, the homeless person or the qualified worker, the woman victim of domestic violence or the judge.
The pedagogy of human dignity is, in and of itself, the pedagogy of freedom, equality and, consequently, democracy.
And there is no time to waste.
The power of the word is, in my opinion, the most important power of a politician and this power must always be at the service of the pedagogy of democracy.
Lawyer and manager
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