Did you ever read Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel? He outlines three human - what does he call it? - ways of life. Hunter/gatherer, agrarian, and herders. Each has a prejudice about the other. Agrarians think the hunter/gathers are stupid, the hunter/gathers think agrarians are ignorant (of the simplest of things like the phase of the moon and edible plants nearby) and the herders simply hate all the others.

Nor is it a win when we wake up to a new morning for the Citizens United States of America.

But we did what we needed to do:  We stopped what Walker represents; we stopped right-to-work and privatizing of our public employee pensions and more, because we won the state Senate in stage two of the recalls (after tieing it up with the recalls last summer that naysayers called a loss, not understanding what we needed to do. . . .).

And now, the DA is freed from the ex officio ban on acting within 60 days of an election, and the John Doe investigation goes forward, and we resume the countdown to the day when we see Perp Walker in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit, joining his 13 former aides under indictment and his donor already convicted of crimes against the state.

And now we know -- you must have missed this here -- that Perp Walker also is facing the feds, in a concurrent investigation, not just for when he was county exec a la the John Doe but also for illegal (RICO? it seems) activities as governor.

The Koch Bros. are gonna have to kick in a lot more to that legal defense fund for Perp Walker.

"They" - the people running the campaign and the DNC - can keep saying that a state election doesn't matter to the November elections, but I don't think these people realize just how demoralizing it has been for Democrats, especially those who worked so hard in Wisconsin - to see how little the national Democratic organization and the Obama campaign cared about this fight.

The rhetorical stick with which Obama hopes to beat Romney has been swapped out for a wet noodle: how does he go after Romney as a candidate who doesn't care about the little guy when he's demonstrated quite starkly that he doesn't either?  I guess I'll be treated to more instances of listening to Obama's words and wondering if anyone notices that his actions don't line up with them.

And this seemed to be an interesting side note:

Exit polls show union voters supported Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) by a 71 to 29 percent margin over Walker. But voters who live with a union member -- but are not themselves card-carrying members -- supported Barrett by a much narrower margin: 51 percent to 48 percent. Walker won voters with no such union ties by about 20 points.

All told, voters who live in union households made up 33 percent of recall voters -- the most in any presidential or gubernatorial election dating back to 2004. Union members themselves, though, accounted for 17 percent of voters, while those living with a union member made up 15 percent.

That suggests that Democratic and labor efforts to turn out their supporters (which is labor's calling card) were largely successful. The problem was that too many of those who came out sided with Walker, whose recall was initiated after a controversial gambit to strip public-sector unions of collective bargaining rights.

The fact that Walker still won nearly half of the vote from those close to union members suggests the backlash against him was limited to the Democratic base and those directly affected by his decision, while Walker was able to garner plenty of support from everybody else -- including family of union members.