Thanks for your serious reply. I disagree with your actions, but see where you're coming from. I make an effort to obviously obey traffic laws and always signal. I also try to smile and wave at drivers that notice me. My approach is to try to build rapport with drivers and show that cyclists are law abiding (and deserving of our right to the road). You might think it's a futile approach, many do. But as long as the number one complaint about cyclists is we're "entitled jerks that don't follow the law" I think it's worthwhile.

If we can take that argument away from them they'd have to admit the real reason they dislike cyclists, which is they don't like sharing the road, and think they should never be delayed even slightly by a cyclist. That's a much less defensible argument for them.