Apparently, elections are not that bad for the search for relevant topics.
After days of exhausting searches for an interpretation of the crimes committed on New Year's Eve, the campaigners were the quickest to find their language again.
The CDU opposition therefore gives the Berlin Senate political responsibility without further ado.
That's true and yet it's not, because it's not just a Berlin phenomenon.
The other side, above all Franziska Giffey and Nancy Faeser, quickly recognized that the orgy of violence could ruin the election campaign.
Giffey had to react immediately;
she only has a few weeks left to call herself to mind as the former resolute district mayor of Neukölln.
After the election the old song?
After the election in February, the world could look very different again.
Then Giffey might be sitting with her old coalition partners, who want to talk about everything but failed integration, an overburdened judiciary and frustrated police officers.
The sarcasm would be inappropriate if Giffey, Faeser and others had come up with the idea that the alleged "break" is now imposing on them much earlier.
The causes go back decades.
There have been indications that something is amiss for years.
The SPD and the Greens have now arrived at hasty shots in their ideological lurching course.
This is how the arts of displacement end.