David Morris, a part-time local resident of Point Reyes Station, and long-time activist who co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in 1974, then gave a short overview of “the big picture.” He observed that we were seeing an unprecedented centralization of power and the monopolization of the media in the Trump administration, where the President is governing as a CEO. He warned that the merging of corporate and political realms is dominated by the corporate goal of increasing earnings. This is the definition of fascism. He also pointed out the ominous trend toward privatization of the public sector and the pre-emption of the state by the federal and the city by the states through conditions attached to vital funding.