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A lot of people hate anything that is different than what they prefer, especially if they believe it negatively impacts them in the slightest. They also really hate it when people point out they are wrong, and the thing they hate actually makes things better for them by reducing congestion or reducing their personal costs (single payer healthcare) if they don't feel like they have personal control over the situation.
These people tend to get into positions of power because they want control and trumpet their views which convinces some people who didn't even have an opinion in the first place. From there, repetition of blatant lies tends to sway the general population who don't have enough information to know better and who see a team they can root for.
People in general are selfish except in a crisis.
It's not just bicycles either. I had someone scream at me with mouth froth and all because I filtered on a motorcycle. I guess they perceived I cut the line or whatever even though they weren't even in the same lane as me.
I've had a lot of hostility as a pedestrian, too. FSM forbid I want to cross the street and it delays their trip by 10 seconds.
Car brained people are broken.