I know this isn’t exactly a counterpoint, since “The belief will not change when the reasons are defeated. The causality is reversed. People believe the reasons

I know this isn’t exactly a counterpoint, since “The belief will not change when the reasons are defeated. The causality is reversed. People believe the reasons because they believe in the conclusion.” — but I have changed my political views dramatically and repeatedly over the course of the past decades. Of course, I could disprove the conclusion by accepting it based on the evidence, but I don’t want the universe to collapse in on itself due to paradox, so I won’t.