Updated On: 07 July, 2025 04:11 PM IST | Los Angeles | IANS
Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas recently opened up about the state of politics in the US, saying that the nation is currently “flirting with autocracy”. The actor also shared that it is everyone's responsibility to look out for themselves

Michael Douglas. Pic/AFP
Legendary Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, who recently attended the Karlovy Vary Film Festival to present a newly restored print of Milos Forman’s classic ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, has made it very clear that he won’t return to the fold.
He spoke at the festival about his fears for democracy in the U.S. under the Trump administration, reports ‘Variety’.
When asked at a press conference about the state of politics in his home country, the Oscar-winner said the nation is currently “flirting with autocracy”.
“I look at it generally as the fact of how precious democracy is, of how vulnerable it is and how it always has to be protected”, he added. “I hope that what we’re struggling with right now is a reminder of all the hard work the Czechs did in gaining their freedom and independence. Politics now seem to be for profit. Money has entered democracy as a profit centre. People are going into politics now to make money. We maintained an ideal, an idealism in the U.S., which does not exist now”.