You said it

For 364 days of the year or 365 on leap years, this space is filled with the views of the Daily News Editorial Board. Today, we turn the page over to you — the intense, raucous, irascible, hilarious, inimitable men and women who appear daily in the newspaper’s Voice of the People page.

You were up to your old tricks in 2017. Boy were you ever. We amend the old Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times”: May you write and read letters to the editor in Donald Trump’s America and Bill de Blasio’s New York City.

Those two towering New Yorkers, and the worlds they sought to usher in, were stuck deep in readers’ craws.

Especially, of course especially, the President, whose penchant for nastiness and namecalling seemed to give additional permission, as though Voicers needed any, for gloves-off letter-writing.

Early on in the year, Diane Hunt of Brooklyn pleaded for a new tone: “We have a new President. As negative as some of you feel, that’s how positive I feel. None of us knows what will happen now. Those of you who project doom and gloom, relax yourselves, take a deep breath and think positive.”

It was not to be. Robin Grant of Raleigh, N.C., channeled many when she wrote: “Every word out of his mouth is a blatant lie. I applaud those who are standing up for what is right, although I am sure spiteful Donald Trump will do everything in his power to make their lives miserable. He may be rich; however, he is and will remain very, very small.”

Trump not only dominated political conversation so completely it could fill five of these columns; he inserted himself far and wide into the culture, as when he called kneeling NFL players like Colin Kaepernick “SOBs.”

That touched a nerve with Voicers, who tend to love their football and their country, by the hundreds. Wrote Stephen Klausner of Jamaica Estates: “It ill behooves the coddled, multimilliondollar athletes, with their palatial mansions and other perks, to defame America and their fellow Americans by kneeling when the national anthem is played.

“These black athletes are the beneficiaries of a benevolent country that has passed several civil rights acts that have made it possible for these minority men to enter, and profit from, mainstream American life.”

Libby Gurgis of Forest Hills played tough defense toward her fellow letter-writer: “His message to black athletes is that they should be grateful for all that the white man has so ‘benevolently’ bestowed upon them, so therefore they should just shut up and play football. These athletes are not disrespecting the flag. They are protesting the treatment of black men and women who are murdered by police officers with no consequences.” ere at home, a mayor who won admirers and withering critics in his first four years on the highest of high horses escaped indictment for the pay-to-play culture he created and ambled in the saddle into a second term.

You wouldn’t have guessed by reading the Voice of the People page that in November de Blasio would coast to reelection.

Chris Perry of Lyndhurst, N.J., was among many who looked around and saw a deteriorating quality of life: “Hey Mayor de Blasio, if you don’t start to control the homeless and growing filthy conditions in Times Square, expect yourself to be responsible for it turning back to the way it was in the 1980s.”

HThe mayor took knocks not just for substance, but for what many thought was shallow and insufferable, if statuesque, symbolism. In the spring, he supported the overnight phenom called “Fearless Girl,” initially installed as a marketing stunt opposite Bowling Green’s “Charging Bull.”

Johnny T. Sollitto of Brooklyn asked, “If ‘Fearless Girl’ is such great art, why must she piggyback on the ‘Charging Bull’? Great art can stand alone and so can ‘Fearless Girl’ — if Mayor de Blasio would just let her be — instead of piggybacking on the liberal issues she represents to score some votes in the upcoming mayoral election.”

Cathi Venis of Auburndale disagreed: “I love what the Financial District’s ‘Fearless Girl’ statue represents. It is a reminder that the most powerful women start out as brave, intelligent, capable little girls.” hat debate was mild compared to the postCharlottesville throwdown over the city’s historical statues and monuments — particularly Columbus, whom City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito sought to purge from the circle bearing his name.

Manhattan’s Randy Stiles begged to differ: “I agree with Melissa Mark-Viverito that we should consider removal of the Columbus statue. After all, he is responsible for discovering Puerto Rico, which gave us her.” Ouch.

Brooklyn’s Cassandra Gramegna added, “The idea that Mayor de Blasio wants a task force to take down statues is absurd. Why are we erasing history? History is to be remembered, good or bad, for a reason. While we are at it, take down Lady Liberty and all it represents.”

Speaking of that island, the decision of Puerto Rican Day Parade organizers to give pardoned terrorist leader Oscar López Rivera an honored position in the annual celebration sparked a major uproar which didn’t die down until sponsors — including The News — withdrew.

The spotlight returned to Puerto Rico in the worst way toward year’s end. After being battered by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the American island struggled amid the federal government’s seeming indifference.

“While Rome burned, Nero fiddled. While Puerto Rico was dying, Trump tweeted,” bemoaned Charley Mullaney of Rockville Centre, L.I. But the year’s biggest storm was a cultural one. Revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s serial predations gave rise to the #MeToo movement, which then brought down another, and another, and another powerful abuser — and a set off debate about who protects bad men, and why.

Lauren Hornek of Staten Island declared: “The Hollywood elite’s moral conscience is like a light switch: on for issues of health care, gun control and feminism, off for issues of sexual harassment and rape that have plagued their community for decades. The Weinstein scandal has exposed them for the phony hypocrites they are.” n a very tough year, take heart that the longest debate was between the lines — literally.

Long Island City’s Greg Fletcher asked, “How much longer do we, as daily readers and puzzlers, have to put up with the ‘Between the Lines’ comic strip? It is never funny, never even halfway intelligent, often completely obtuse, and nowhere on the scale of wit or entertainment.”

Bill Gillingham of Hazlet, N.J., pleaded, “To all the haters out there taking the time to bash ‘Between the Lines’ daily, please stop.”

As 2017 ends, the strip remains. As do you, dear reader, and dear writer. Thank you.

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