"the US is part of the imperial core, so their population is more susceptible to propaganda."

I mean, this is basically what I meant by "frontier petty tyrants".

If US workers earn as much as Guatemalan workers, the flat-earthers who think Jews conspire to hide the filament from God-fearing Christians won't just disappear.

Well as someone who's sister married into a Guatemalan family, and has been down there twice, there are def already Central American flat earther who think Jews conspire to hide the firmament. So this checks out.