The 2020's: another lost decade?

The TVA Project

Beginning with the Great Depression and continuing for 4 decades, the United States was able to accomplish big comprehensive public projects and policies that helped it become an advanced liberal democracy and industrial nation. There were the big public works projects like the TVA and programs like the Social Security Act in the 1930's,  the industrial mobilization of WW2, and the Marshall Plan which saved European Capitalism in the 1940's. The 1950's saw the creation of the Federal Interstate System. And during the 1960's huge strides in social and economic justice were made with the signing of the Voting and Civil Rights Act, the creation of Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for those living under the poverty-line. These big public government actions came to an end with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and Bill Clinton's embrace of Wall Street Banks
 during the 1990's.

As we enter 2020 and beyond, will the U.S. continue to be captured by corporations that control our government or can people wrest control of the levers of power and return to an era when government collectively responded to the population's will; like building mass-public transportation projects, government-run M4ALL, expansion of the social safety net, etc. As we, the voting public, enter the primaries, we should ask the candidates running for public office what they see for the future: a wealth and financial tax to fund big government projects like in the past or  continue to embrace another lost decade?