Is the Democratic Party's "Working Families" Line Mostly Just a Platitude Now?

[Blair]

Beyond his navy service, JFK was by far the President furthest removed from ‘working families’.

But quibbles aside this isn’t a new argument; it’s one that was being made in the 1960s and 1970s; the massive street fight between construction workers, and new left protestors was endlessly talked about as showing the divides.

But is an inherently false choice; it’s perfectly possible to argue that you want a $15 minimum wage, no right-to-work laws, universal healthcare and affordable college (all of which would remarkably help working families) whilst also affording basic civil rights such as same-sex marriage, the right to contraception/abortion and protections for LGBT workers.

I won’t even go into the academic argument about how the Democrats in the 1950s and 1960s (much like the U.K. Labour Party) really only saw working men as being the most important.