"Now is not the time" is a phrase said almost exclusively by people for whom the time will never be good enough to discuss anything important.
If *now* is not the time to discuss pay raises for nurses and doctors, not the time to discuss human rights, or disability benefit, or the minimum wage, or protections for low paid but essential workers, then it will never be the time, and that's the point.
They're just doing what they did with gun control. Saying it's not the time to discuss it while people die, knowing full well they've no intention of *ever* finding the "right" time. They're doing *exactly* that.
Of all the ignorance and nonsense of the past few weeks, "now is not the time" is easily one of the most cowardly and self-serving phrases I've seen repeated and repeated. It's a generic response to everything for which now is *literally* the time.
And now I'm done moaning.
And now I'm done moaning.
