@lina @ainmosni you know
when i moved back to saskatchewan after not living here from 2013-2019

i wasn't as polarized, provincially

it was weird because it was like I didn't really have a dog in any of the fights, here

but that quickly changed the longer I stayed

similarly i've mostly ignored civic politics
and what did I get in response?

some of my younger students physically and probably sexually abused by religious schools, encouraged to do so by people in the government and their church

muslims passing out "how to beat your women" instructions in the street , and going from being pretty much completely invisible minority to the point where it seems like i'm living in the middle east.

climate change enabled fires forcing my in-laws to have to completely evacuate their hometown and the air quality going from 'probably the best in anywhere in the world' to 'actively dangerous if you breathe it in without a n95 mask even without covid'

a RG3 brain damaging airborne virus circulating in my city that has me now completely stuck in my apartment

A homeless shelter dropped right beside a school in my city complete with pedophiles, sex offenders & drug dealers, put there thanks to secret agreement between the mayor, chief of police and fire chief (who have managed to secretly profit off of the situation by owning EMS/ambulence company stock). The police / EMS is in that quiet neighbourhood now multiple times a day dealing with their BS and home invasions are happening which was not a thing. Sucks for the homeless too because there's no services for them other than food/shelter just sitting around getting high, being so far away from the downtown core.

Meanwhile, HIV/other STIs are out of in my community, with government policies seemingly intentionally designed to make the problem worse

And we keep adding people to this city, despite the pandemic and other issues...and also despite the fact that we depend entirely on a river that upstream is going dry. And they are talking about building a nuclear power plant on it (again heavily subsidized) that might not work if we run out of water

That's just the start. Ignoring problems did not make them go away, and the people who caused the problems often did so with intent and with motivation of personal profit, ripping the taxpayer off in ways that would often be illegal elsewhere in the world. But they are often not illegal here, because saskatchewan is the kind of place where you can get away with literally running down a young mother and her child, as a drunk driver, and kill her, and become premier, as scott moe did. With basically no remorse.