Federal politics is very much like sports, while municipal politics feels like a boring necessary tar pit that sucks up time. These people won't be engaged as

Federal politics is very much like sports, while municipal politics feels like a boring necessary tar pit that sucks up time. These people won't be engaged as retired people, simply because of time. They make the personally rational decision to do their jobs. Also people don't want to necessarily invest in local politics if they feel they may be gone in a few years. A retired person if fairly likely to be in the same town many years from now, possibly the rest of their lives.