Certainly - actions must come before words. Consider a billionaire who has steadily been giving millions away per year anonymously to a good chartable cause, b

Certainly - actions must come before words. Consider a billionaire who has steadily been giving millions away per year anonymously to a good chartable cause, but realizes the end goal can only be completed with more people. If at any point, the billionaire says hello - I have been donating to this cause for a while, and need help to eradicate it for all time, what happens? I'd guess that people think the billionaire never intended to keep donating in secret and it was generally a ruse. The second you go public, you already need to have a very large amount of "well-thought-of" supporters who are will back you to combat natural cynicism. Another solution is to frame the problem as a common enemy one - thats what I think they tried with the "war on ___".