Why does Atlas prefer the decade of 9-11, the Iraq War and 8 years of Dubya over 8 years of Obama and having a smart phone in everyone's pocket?
Uh, maybe because our OWN lives were better in the 2000s than in the 2010s?
Not everything is about politics
I didn't interpret the question to be asking if we'd like to relive our own, actual, lives how they happened in those decades, just a more generic, "which decade was better to exist in, generally speaking" type of question. I'm not alone in thinking that.
The 2010's may go down as the worst decade since the 60's or 70's (until the 2020's most likely usurp it). The answer is obvious, even though I was in middle school for most of it and hated it.
but even if your interpretation that most Atlas posters used, it would still be interesting that Atlas was doing better under Dubya than under Obama.