Agreed, Sam.
Socioeconomically, Palin also came from the lower-middle class (a family of teachers) but married into the working class (Todd the laborer). Most pols come from the lower-middle class in part because of their ability to adopt middle-middle to middle-upper ways.
Palin’s kids have adopted the working-class ways of dad and their local friends, apparently, which includes the growing pathologies that Charles Murray has documented. Had they been brighter, they more likely would have climbed upward, socially, on their mom’s shoulders instead.
All a roundabout way to get to your apt conclusion—the issues with the kids are what pulled her back into that world.
the issues with the kids are what pulled her back into that world.She didn't do herself any favors with her streetwalker clothing selections (after the campaign wardrobe was returned) and terrible vocal tics. The great Margaret Thatcher humbled herself, before running for PM, to clothing and hair restyling and vocal coaching to refine her image and be more palatable to a skeptical public and more authoritative over male subordinates. Even the legendary Queen Elizabeth the First recognized that controlling her personal appearance, making herself look bigger, would help her rule a kingdom. Sarah stubbornly maintained her folksy personal choices.
