ONE: The prestige of the polls will be diminished. These antique operations, which have–in obedience to the establishment–been happy to diminish Ron Paul, will be discredited by February. No one will fully trust them again; indeed, they may go the way of the paper newspapers: down the techno-memory hole. TWO: The profession of politician will be diminished. We’ve always known that they were liars and thieves, wholly owned by the military-industrial complex and other special interests. But the example of Ron Paul’s honesty and unbending principles, and the reaction of supporters, has undermined the usual model of pol.