It’s silly to just say “crazy is crazy.” You can’t classify human beings so easily.

History is full of examples of people we’d call crazy, who were very obsessive about a political ideology. Politics and insanity are not mutually exclusive — in fact, one often drives the other. It’s not a simple either/or situation — nuts or not nuts. It’s more of a continuum of crazy, with some people far out on the fringes where the ideologies are all tangled up, and others closer to the more recognizable right/left classification.

The guy who crashed his airplane into the federal building was not easily identifiable by ideology, and seemed more driven by personal anger and bitterness. The Pentagon shooter had a pretty clearly defined right wing libertarian anarchist position.

You can’t throw these two people into the same “crazy” bag.