The saying is “root the problem first”
The story of the dog and well goes such,
A small village well got smelly after a dog drowned in it, a wise man from a nearby larger village was contacted and he said to drain 30 buckets of water 3 times in a day and the water will clear up.
The village did that, but to no avail, they approached the wise man again, the wise man asked if they removed the dead dog first?
So for your car
Aligning it with bad bushings will be similar to above, you will never get a repair done, the alignment will be thrown off immediately when the car rolls on a sloping road.