The thing is, when I'm bicycling I do so entirely to the rules of the
road and I have motorists do everything from intentionally messing with
to attempting to hurt/kill me.

Thursday night I am bicycling along at about 23mph on 35mph residential
two lane road. Up ahead someone from the oncoming direction was waiting
to turn left. SUV driver can't ease up for a couple seconds and tries to
run me off the road. I then follow said asshat to his house, stopping at
the end of his driveway and wait for him to get out. From the following
conversation they made it clear they intentionally tried to run me off
the road because I was not using the sidewalk (it's labeled 'bike
route', but is loaded with blind driveways, cross streets, peds, kids,
and dogs. Max safe speed is less than 8mph.

Today, I'm going around a pothole on a 4 lane arterial. There is hardly
any traffic to speak of, just me and some guy driving a VW. Guess what
he does... he brush passes me. Then stops at the red light up the block.
I pull up behind him. Light turns green. He doesn't move. air horn. He
doesn't move air horn blast. He starts crawling. Then he crosses the
intersection and stops. Yelling at me. He gets out of his car and
threatens to beat me up. I tell him to get in his car and drive away. I
point to his plate. vanity. easy as hell to remember. He gets in his car
and drives away.  

Time and time again, these asshats are doing what they are doing on
purpose. The fact they don't just drive away shows they aren't in a
hurry, they have all the time in the world, they just have to show me
they are 'boss'.

It's getting to the point where I am avoiding arterial roads. but that
doesn't work... had an asshat in black challenger that I've see before.
Always has to roar his V8 engine when he comes near me. He's oncoming
heading back towards roughly where I think he lives... I
am headed away from his house. He turns, follows me, passes me close
keeping the noise down then lets the engine roar once he's past me. I
know he did it on purpose because the route we are on takes us the
arterial road he just came from. Sure enough... there he is waiting at
the light when I get there.

It's so much worse this year... half of me wants to ride much more
because of it, the other half is considering quitting.

Doesn't work for me... I've had them go up the curb and continue.

Not possible. Unless there's a building to your right and you scrape your
side mirror, some will wedge their way in. Even if it requires scraping
handlebars/pedals up against your car. I've actually seen that done.

No. I never discounted that it happens.  It's that some people, such as
yourself think that every bicycle rider does it and you have proposed
endangering bicyclists for the sake of doing so.  It is that later bit I
'flamed' you for.  

And as I recall you intentionally brush pass bicyclists too.