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You bring up an interesting point with the parable of the weeds, so here it is: This is the old Douay version taken from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate of the third century, but probably reads closely to the KJV and other versions. It is from Matthew 13.

Mt:13:

24 ¶ Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
26 And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle.
27 And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it cockle?
28 And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?
29 And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.
30 Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

We do not want to include the cockle with the wheat when we harvest. We don't want to nurture the cockle either, for cockle is antithesis to the wheat. For a long time the cockle has been sitting there and growing right beside the wheat. Right now we are preparing to gather wheat for the harvest which is the election, so now we bundle up the cockle and burn it. The time is right Sounds good to me. You make my point. Thank you.