I remember that episode of MASH

OK, several trillion greasy bucks, locked away from the average American since 1980 because of a con out great-great grandparents saw through 100 years ago.

The rest was history. And a disaster - titanic ballooning debts, income inequality not seen since the French Revolution, and a citizenry so deluded by lies that a flat earth seems reasonable.
All for a greasy buck.

eventually the rich person will have to relieve themselves trickle in the restroom. This was only marginally better than the ‘eat seeds from horseshit’ label, but some bright boy figured out if you eliminate the scatological part, you get “Trickle Down.”

Almost 100 years of Republican thought came up with a solution: rename the Horse and Sparrow theory. I think, since the eventual new label was “Trickle Down Theory,” at some point they argued that if a rich person drinks enough champagne,

This didn’t go over so well in the 19th century since people knew shit from shinola back then and any economic theory that involved them picking seeds from horseshit was, in a word, horseshit.

It was, of course nonsense, and identical to their “Horse and Sparrow Theory” from the 19th century in which they argued “If you feed the horse more, eventually some of the seeds get through to the sparrow.”

All well and good, no magic there. The flim-flam the Republicans brought, though, was the “Trickle Down” theory of economics.

To recap, the voting preference of the former Yellow Dog Democrats, was:
Vote Republican > vote for a yellow dog > agreeing on black and brown American citizens > cutting off right arm. There is some uncertainty on the last three parts, but vote Republican was definitely the least objectionable.

Since they refused to acknowledge what was black and white law in the Constitution, they would rather vote Republican - the party of Lincoln! - than agree that black and brown American citizens are actually black and brown American citizens.

This pissed off the “Solid South” that up until then were known as Dixiecrats or Yellow Dog Democrats who would rather vote for a Yellow Dog than a Republican, or more forcefully, who would rather cut off their right arm than vote Republican.

Yes, people of all races who are American citizens ARE American citizens. This simple tautology - Amercian citizens ARE American citizens, seems forgotten and disagreeable for a lot of people.