Generation Divide III

See, now I just
never got why
they put Jackson
on the twenty.

He was the guy
who said he
wanted to kill
the bank, right?
And that's not
even why I don't
like him. But
he posits some
interesting things
about generations,
such as that he
was ten years old
when the US became
a country, and was
thus probably
the first president
to have more of
an interest in 1812,
when Madison sort of
proved the country
was on its own feet,
than in the Revolution.

He also had a lot
to worry about
with the emerging
two-party system,
which has by now
all but declared
a new secession
(but no one
would ever say so!),
back when we
wore wigs, too.

Jackson, for whom
the vague concept
of Jacksonianism
was born (I always
need to research more),
was a sort of
transition, from
(and he had to
defeat Quincy,
the final Adams
of ignominy,
to get there)
a time of Founders
to a gradual
decline, from where
the world would
at last be opened.

You might as well
call Jacksonianism
a generation,
a generation divide,
from which would spring
the new world revolution