To quote the legendary Bavarian comedian Karl Valentin:
"Früher herrschten hier die Ultramontanen, und was hatten wir? Bonzen! Dann kamen, nach der Revolution, die Marxisten, und was hatten wir? Bonzen! Dann kam endlich der Nationalsozialismus! Und was haben wir heute? Mittwoch!"
...Meaning, roughly:
"Back in the day, the Catholic conservatives ruled around here, and what did we have? Bonzen! Then, after the revolution, came the Marxists, and what did we have? Bonzen! Then, at last, National Socialism came! And what do we have today? Wednesday!"
The term Bonze does not translate particularly well; it describes a despicable bigwig type.
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