I always RECLINE my seat despite the howls of plus-sized passengers who moan I’m invading their space, says KENNEDY in a hilarious and VERY blunt pronouncement on in-flight etiquette. So do you dare to agree?

People are heathens. We’ve been sliding down the boorish ramp of made-up problems since before Britney roamed without a conservator, but the pandemic brought out the worst in humans and we’ve forgotten the public rules of engagement.

This is most evident on planes, and I feel I compelled – nay forced – to set some seriously stupid people straight.

Sure, I could spill plenty of ink on the horrors of mid-air visits to the toilet in your socks or forgetting to take your Gas-X before you board, but we have to focus on the bigger issue here.

Warning: This is about to get as controversial as pineapple on pizza.

Unless you married a Kardashian or have one of those mystery jobs that pays you to fly and rack up points and perks, you’re stuck with me and all the other great unwashed in coach.

And back here, the most curious argument has emerged from us stinky masses, and it has become an unnecessary point of endless frustration.

To recline – or not to recline?

But to me it’s not a question.

New video has emerged of the latest altercation at 30,000 feet involving a staunch anti-recline extremist. It all went down on a flight from Paris to L.A. in early August.

The viral clip shows a woman – stiff-armed and straining – preventing the passenger in front of her from putting her seat back. ‘Respect the person behind you,’ the fanatic cried.

New video has emerged of the latest altercation at 30,000 feet involving a staunch anti-recline extremist. It all went down on a flight from Paris to L.A. in early August.

Sure, I could spill plenty of ink on the horrors of mid-air visits to the toilet in your socks or forgetting to take your Gas-X before you board, but we have to focus on the bigger issue here.

Yes, a reclining seat is seen by some irrational dolts as a shot across the bow of public decency but to those who are aggrieved when I tilt my seat back a mere two inches, I say: suck it. Don’t get mean when I choose to lean.

It seems to me that people who get mad at reclining — which is, might I add, a FUNCTION of the seat and not a glitch — are the exact same people who yell abuse at opposing fans during major sporting events.

They’re the people who square-up to umpires at their kid’s softball game, and the same class of ass-hat as those who scrape someone else’s car while fighting for mall parking spots at Christmas.

They’re the worst of the worst, the fight-pickers who feel entitled to spoils without fair-won victory, and they simply love making loud stands to score points in a game no one else wants to play.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m a keen adopter of in-flight etiquette.

Whenever I get on a plane, I help people up with their bags (which embarrasses my children no end, especially as I often wear navy blue and act like an off-duty flight attendant), I share crackers from my snack box with row mates, and I make sure to always tuck my backpack under the seat so as not to hog all the room in the overhead bins like other selfish over-packed hacks.

It seems to me that people who get mad at reclining — which is, might I add, a FUNCTION of the seat and not a glitch — are the exact same people who yell abuse at opposing fans during major sporting events.

(On which note: It would great for us all to re-watch the famous montage from George Clooney classic ‘Up In The Air’ where he teaches packing and comportment to those who stink up plane travel.)

But when it comes to the rules of reclining, I simply won’t budge.

Now, I can already hear the horse-punching chumps scream: ‘Oh but Kennedy, reclining your seat is much more selfish than taking up too much overhead space! I’m a great big fat person and it’s hard for me to wriggle out of my row when you’re barely a centimeter into my personal space!’

Kennedy is a Fox News commentator, former MTV VJ and host of the podcast ‘Kennedy Saves the World’

Listen, I’m not here to fat shame. I hope it makes you happy to have a little more cushion for the pushin’. But your personal choice to skip the gym, forego Ozempic, or any other avenue to nutritional responsibility, has no impact whatsoever on my personal choice to recline as I like.

Why should I – having paid the same as you – be forced to sit ramrod upright simply because Lizzo told you how sexy and ’empowering’ your corpulence is?

So, let’s make a deal: You let me rest peacefully by not forcing me to nap like I have a steel post placed up my bottom – and I’ll let you hoover the entire dessert table at Golden Corral, yes?

In a bid to avoid mile-high bust-ups, some spineless airlines have resorted to ‘pre-reclined’ seats.

But is a one-size-fits-all system the solution to easing social tension created by a tyrannical minority of melodramatic fliers? Absolutely not.

The whole point of the recline design is to offer passing relief, to shake things up when you’re flying long-haul from Texas to Turks and Caicos. And who wants to eat their meal while lounging at a 45-degree angle anyway?

So it’s settled: the optional reclining of one’s seat is laughably anodyne and should require no further cultural discussion.

And for those considering investing in recline-blocking terror tools like the ‘Knee Defender’ (Google it, it’s a real thing), save your money and shove it in your honey hole instead so the rest of us can be spared your droning.