In the US, as in much of the rest of the world I suspect, we are caught in a false dichotomy- and this is really the key to understanding the strong delusion in the end-times.
Both the US left & right work together. When the right needs to rally their base, the 'left' will manufacture a news item that will rally the 'right's group. Same with the left. That way, nothing ever changes.
The right will see the 'evil' of the left and it will create a legitimacy that really shouldn't exist. And vice versa. All the way up until the end.
The 'left' is groomed and encouraged to be 'tolerant' & 'pagan' & 'meritocratic' (survival of the fittest)
The 'right' is groomed and encouraged to be 'racist' & 'social darwinists' (survival of the fittest) (the 'princes of Israel are wolves' Ezekiel 22:27
The left in the US (Democrats) are groomed to be part of the United Nations (which is the modern equivalent of the king of the North - hence the UN flag being oriented from the North pole.)
The right in the US (Republicans) are groomed to be part of the future Illuminati (spiritual Egypt) (which is the modern equivalent of the king of the South) (if you have seen the movie Atlas Shrugged, something like that, the ideology of libertarianism & Ayn Rand which makes a virtue of selfishness. In the movies, it is even making veiled references to 'socialism ruining the country' - meaning when the king of the North / aka the socialist UN has sway over the US presumably).
(I don't want to pass up the chance to point out that the Republican logo has 3 Satanic stars on it:
File:Republicanlogo.svg - Wikimedia Commons . It used to have 3 normal stars until the early 2000's I believe, so they purposefully changed it to 3 Satanic stars. This from the political party that used to (rightly) accuse heavy metal music of being Satanic; and one of the indicators of this was the upside down Satanic star the bands would parade around. The times do change!
It's helpful to remember that the 'covenant with Death & hell' is actually about Israel's covenant with Egypt (king of the south). Israel wanted military support from Egypt so as to survive an attack by the king of the North. The king of the North is the empire with the 'Zeus' idol (based on Antiochus). The king of the South is the empire that will have the microchip implant. (see Isaiah 36:6)
The 'mark of the beast' is actually deliberately ambiguous, but it is actually talking about 2 marks of the beast: the mark of the king of the North & the mark of the king of the South (which is the microchip that pierces the hand of all who rely on Pharaoh). In the time before the end, both sides will think that the other is evil - and that is how people fall for the trap.
At the end, the UN empire will adopt the microchip & the Illuminati empire will worship the Lucifer of the UN empire. That is how it appears to me.