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Healthy societies need a reality-based community. The Reality Base is a response to the current state of governments that promote liars and confidence trickers.

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How?

  1. Decentralized data with a combination of Crypto & Bittorrent or variants to eliminate centralized responsibility.

  2. Public Blockchain ledgers with profiles & claims

  3. Anonymous crypto wallet transactions with no central money store.

Core Product Principles

  1. Provide verifiable profiles of political influencers.Help people pick political candidates by providing adequate information — High-integrity records with an audit trail.

  2. Provide adequate information — Just enough to make informed decisions.

  3. We produce no original content, it’s — Content is curated from specialized and reputable organizations.

  4. Before voting, we serve citizens who want to be informed.

  5. Serve the reality-based community — The truth will set us free.

  6. Leave validation to expertsOur data is not responsible for the validity of claims made by external sources.

    1. A web page listing how STR meets its responsibilities.

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Resources

Future Requirements

  1. Provide this information in future versions.

    1. Any public donations.

    2. Links to voting record page on congress.gov - To understand how well they adhere to their principles and values.

    3. Public litigation records for lawsuits.

    4. Organization affiliations.

  2. Help people form opinions about candidates by curating content from various sources.

    1. Allow commenting on posted content like StackOverflow, which we may be able to use.

    2. People who preceded a particular political candidate

    3. Congressional committee assignments

  3. Allow people to compare profiles.

  4. Allow submission of claims associated with political influencers.

    1. The burden of proof is always on the claimant.

    2. Wikipedia is one of the claimants.

    3. Provide public aggregated records and citations for claims.

  5. Claim reviewers must meet the criteria.

  6. Only provide cross-referenced information.

    1. Display everywhere data entry occurs.

  7. Multiple people review claims and claim reviewers before going live.

    1. Reject Claims

    2. Approve Claims

    3. Etc.