.@JuliaHB1 @MorningEdition Americans would never give local rights to a central power? It's called The Constitutional Convention. #Brexit
@hammitt @MorningEdition er, the USA is one country, not 28 different countries. Small but key difference.
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@JuliaHB1 At the time of the Convention we considered ourselves independent in all but free commerce and mutual defense. Sound familiar? -
@hammitt so states can secede from the union at any time, can't they? -
@JuliaHB1 Didn't say the history was the same-just that the metaphor was bad. We are a federation of states, so, yeah we CAN imagine that. -
@hammitt sigh. Not to a FOREIGN power, no. -
@JuliaHB1 Nor is the EU a FOREIGN power. That's misleading & you know it. I didn't say they're the same, I just said its a silly metaphor. -
@JuliaHB1 like if we were merging with Canada and I said "the English couldn't IMAGINE forming a union with their northern neighbor."
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@JuliaHB1 I'm not saying it's the same. I just thought it was funny to say we "couldn't imagine" what is, in fact, our actual history.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@JuliaHB1 I mean, you actually said we would "never allow" voting away rights that we did, in fact, vote away. -
@hammitt I said the US would never give away its sovereignty to foreign powers as we have done. Not the same thing at all. -
@JuliaHB1 It was *at the time* the same. The current US, 250 years later, wouldn't. But we did have to fight a bloody war over that one. -
@hammitt yes, but I wasn't talking about 200 years ago, was I? I was talking about now. -
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@hammitt I didn't condescendingly over simply anything. Can we leave this now, I have work to do. -
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