What is wrong with AKP's factory settings?

A "return to factory settings" is a concept that dominated the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) agenda after the June 7 elections. However, from that day on, seemingly, the possibility of going back to factory settings does not make a portion of the AK Party happy. Somehow, they see it as a "betrayal" to return to factory settings. 

When you say, "The AK Party's founding ideals should not be forgotten," this irks them as if it were the most rotten idea in the world. They jump to their feet with a chlorotic face.  
  
When you denigrate the fighting, discriminatory, exclusionary and otherizing language, they lose control of themselves; they attack you as if you have cursed them badly. 

When you mention the need felt for "conciliatory politics," they panic as if you had asked for evil to come.
 
When you recall with goodness and yearning the era when the AK Party moved Turkey up the social ladder with its democratization reforms, they immediately become very touchy, in a "Did you say something about me?" mode. 

When you are praising and saying, "The spirit of 2002 was a beautiful mood," when you praise past policies and practices, they start defending to the death some of the debatable styles of governing today. 

When you say, "Criticism is a blessing, why should the AK Party be deprived of it instead of benefiting from it?" then again they lose their minds, they immediately blacklist you, categorizing criticism together with animosity. 

The addressee of the 49.5 percent vote is the politicians, not the journalists who supported them. However, these newcomer types who have emerged in the "new media" act as if they were political actors, as if the people have given them the power to represent...