If the Democratic party is that divided, then his candidacy is a sign of healthy democracy working as it should, not some nefarious plot to guarantee Trump a second term. Furthermore, he grew up in the projects and built a successful business. I'm not sure why that's considered a valid reason to hate or shame him.

He can't be both irrelevant and a spoiler candidate. If the only complaint is that he's not running on one of the corporate War Party tickets, I see that as a reason to support him, not oppose him. Though unlike most who get their "information" from cable news pundits and biased "mainstream" newspapers, I've actually researched his policy views and disagree with a lot of them. Still, he supported Clinton in 2016 but the Democrats are running even more on identity politics and emotional pleas, devoid of any actual policy discussion and certainly evading any questions about how to pay for all these massive new federal programs they're proposing. While I disagree with Schultz on many things, at least he's trying to have the conversation we should be having - namely that a near $22 trillion national debt is the most immediate problem we as a nation need to solve.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/29/whos-afraid-of-howard-schultz-just-about