We need to de-dogmatize the democratic model (Marco Emanuele)

We need to de-dogmatize the democratic model and this means that we have to rediscover the sense and the dignity of democracy, abandoning his presumed certainty of truth.

Democracy can not be a faith to which believing unconditionally; it is a "laboratory" in which we find our mutual contradictions, in which we build the public dimension that is "mirror" of us in each other and in global reality.

We need to de-dogmatize the democratic model primarily because there is no a unique democratic model but because there are infinitely many democratic processes embodied in an original way in each world-of-life.

We need to de-dogmatize the democratic model because democracy, depending from us, is, fortunately, imperfect, uncertain and contradictory; democracy is flesh and blood and "boots in the ground" and presupposes rules, knowledge and participation. Democracy works if and when it calls its own citizens to accept and understand the "signs of the times"; otherwise, as happens more and more often nowadays, in many cases democracy remains as the "name" of contexts that have only the memory of a democratic past.