Living out in BC for 10 years, I would say that many BC voters (possibly even a majority of them, couldn't say for sure) are very prone to hype and propaganda, more often than not. And yeah, I agree that's a problem.
Before they drank the "JWR Kool-Aid", as you put it, they drank the "Trudeau Kool-Aid", so to speak. While I have my misgivings about the LPC and their ability to follow through on election promises in a way that satisfies the hype, I was never one to fault people in BC for being for Trudeau. For all my misgivings, I figured we were in better hands, one way or another. But the way some folks talked about him out there, he was Parliamentary Jesus or "Canada's Obama" (actual quote from a BC voter), who would come into power and make Canada a fucking utopia; there was no political reality to their decision to vote for him, they were riding the "sunny ways" dopamine rush. And we all know what happens on this forum when something doesn't live up to hype: opinions take a drastic turn. And that's what's happened out there.
Why are you bringing up Notley? I agree with you, Alberta is going to be an impossible nut to crack. But Alberta =/= Saskatchewan, I don't know how much more clear I can be about this. Our provincial politics here are drastically different, for example, with frequent 10-year off-and-on cycles where conservatives lose power provincially. I've given you plenty of political history from SK, but you've consistently painted Saskatchewan with the same Alberta brush, as the above post clearly demonstrates. It comes off as exceptionally ignorant.